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SOUL AND BODY WORK. 



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G. HAINES. Evangelist. 




G. HAINES, 
PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR, 

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 



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COPYRIGHTED 1567, BT G. HAINES. 



PRINTED BY 

MORNING STAR PUB CO., 
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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER. PAGE, 

I. Origin of Good and Evil, - - - 5 

II. Man's Relation to God, - - - - 9 

III. Fall and Redemption of Man, 14 

IV. Salvation by Christ, 19 

V. The New Birth, - - - 24 

VI. Trinity of Faith, 27 

VII. Faith and Works, 33 

VIII. Following Jesus, 37 

IX. Entire Consecration, 41 

X. Holy Ghost Fire, 46 

XI. Purity of Heart, 50 

XII. The Extent of Salvation, - - - 54 

XIII. Purification, 57 

XIV. The Anointing Power, - - - - 61 
XV. Holiness, 66 

XVI. Preservation, 69 

XVII. Soul and Body Work, 72 

XVIII. Sickness an Enemy, 76 

XIX. Cause and Cure of Sickness, - 82 

XX. Affliction and Sickness, - - - - 86 



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CHAPTER . PAGE 

XXI. The Great Physician, - - - - 89 

XXII. Our Duty in Case of Sickness 92 

XXIII. Responsibility, 101 

XXIV. Why not Accept Healing 

Now? 105 

XXV. Healing from a Desire, - - - no 

XXVI. Healing by the Word, 116 

XXVII. Healing by Inspiration, - - - 121 

XXVIII. Trances, 126 



CHAPTER I. 



ORIGIN OF GOOD AND EVIL. 

God is love. His infinite nature de- 
mands that all finite accountable beings 
should glorify Him; and His goodness 
strongly invites us to become partakers of 
His wonderful grace. He created an in- 
numerable company of holy angels, and a 
great central world called heaven, in which 
they might eternally dwell with Him. 

God's supreme majesty made Him the 
sole ruler of the angels and their home. 
Do you not wish we had such a home on 
earth? If so, then let us unite in praying, 
"Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in 
earth as it is in heaven." Matt. 6:10. But 
alas, there came a time when one of the 
leaders of the angels dared to presume 
against the prerogative of God; and as- 
sumed that, inasmuch as his power had 
never been tested, he himself might be 
equal, if not superior to God. In the great 
and decisive battle that tested his strength 
God threw him out of heaven, at which 



6 LOVE ON FIRE. 

time he transformed himself into "that old 
serpent, called the Devil." Rev. 12: 7-9. 
Ever since that overthrow and transforma- 
tion he has been the incessant enemy of 
man, of angels and of God. As the poet 
has said: 

" Pride still was aiming at the blessed abode, 
Men would be angels, and angels would be gods; 
A striving to be gods angels fell, 
A striving to be angels man rebelled. " 

Thus it was by presumption, pride, and 
rebellion, that the devil was originated, and 
by his subsequent acts has caused the fall 
of the human race, and all the misery 
known to mankind. 

God's love led to the creation of other 
worlds than heaven, one of which (this 
earth) became the abode of man. The 
creation of man, like the creation of angels, 
was designed for the glory of God. He 
will protect all beings from evil whom He 
creates, as long as they are true to Him. In- 
asmuch as all evil is from the hand of 
Satan, and all good from the hand of God, 
it became necessary that the Creator be- 
come the protector of His creature man 
for good, and his safeguard against evil, 
that he might fill the vacancy caused by the 
angels that fell. 2 P. 2: 4. Good and evil 



ORIGIN OF GOOD AND EVIL. 7 

existed before the creation of man, as well 
as subsequently, and will continue to exist 
while the probation of man lasts. There- 
fore he must ever choose the right and re- 
ject the wrong. In fact, his eternal weal or 
eternal woe depends on his own choice. 

u The tree of life" planted by God him- 
self "in the midst of the garden of Eden," 
and afterwards seen in heaven by John 
(Gen. 2:9; Rev. 22:2), typifies Christ, 
who is to be obtained and retained only by 
entering into and meditating upon the 
things of God. u The tree of knowledge 
of good and evil" represents man's natural 
goodness in his fallen state, or the natural 
man out of Christ. 

Presumption, or going outside of God's 
will to think or act, is eating of the forbid- 
den fruit, which leads to the disfavor of 
our heavenly Father, to death, and finally 
to hell. O, beware of the tree of knowl- 
edge of good and evil, and eat only of the 
tree of life in the midst of the paradise of 
God. Beware of human philosophy and 
reason, the wrong use of which have robbed 
heaven, desolated the earth, and peo- 
pled hell. Surely "God hath made man 
upright, but they have sought out many 



5 LOVE ON FIRE. 

inventions." Eccl. 7:29. Yea, "Vanity 
of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of 
vanities; all is vanity." Eccl. 1:2. 

It is true, "The fool hath said in his heart, 
'There is no God.'" Ps. 53: 1. But the god- 
ly "delighteth in the law of the Lord; and 
in His law doth he meditate day and night." 
Ps. 1:2. If you would he godly, and not as 
the fool, do not presume in reference to any 
thing the Lord has not taught; but meditate 
much on that which He has revealed by 
His word, and by the Holy Spirit. If sons, 
"Ye have an unction from the Holy One, 
and ye know all things. The anointing 
which ye have received of Him abideth 
in you, and ye need not that any man 
teach you: but as the same anointing teach- 
eth you of all things, and is truth, and is no 
lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye 
shall abide in Him." 1 John, 2: 20, 27. 

"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask 
of God that giveth to ail men liberally, and 
upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 

But let him ask in faith, nothing waver- 
ing. For he that wavereth is like a wave 
of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. 

For let not that man think that he shall 
receive any thing of the Lord." James 

1:5-7- 



MAN S RELATION TO GOD. 9 

Therefore, as long as you maintain your 
cleansing by faith in the blood of Christ, 
and are led by the Lord, it is impossible for 
you to presume in reference to the things 
you do not know. 



CHAPTER II. 



MAN'S RELATION TO GOD. 

We value things according to what they 
cost, and by the time we hope to keep 
them. God could have created millions of 
worlds of fine gold, or precious diamonds, 
without pain to anyone, and without sacri- 
fice to Himself, but the redemption of a lost 
world cost Him " the brightness of His 
glory, and the express image of His person" 
— the Bright and Morning Star — the only 
begotten Son of God. Yea, God laid on 
Him the iniquity of us all, and forbade men 
and angels to save Him from the ignomini- 
ous death of the cross. How great the 
sacrifice on the part of God, and how inex- 
pressibly great the suffering of His Son 
when He cried, ^ Eloi, Eloi, lama sabach- 



IO LOVE ON FIRE. 

thani? which is, being interpreted, My God, 
my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" 
Mark 15: 34. How forceful the poet's words 
concerning the sacrifice the Father made in 
the giving of His Son to die for us: 

" Could I with ink the ocean fill, 
And were the skies a parchment made, 
And every stock was made a quill, 
And every man a scribe by trade, 
To tell the love of God above, 
Would drain the ocean dry, 
Nor could the scroll contain the whole, 
If stretched from sky to sky." 

Yes, God is love; otherwise He would 
not have given His only Son to suffer and 
die in man's stead. But you ask, what is 
man that God was so mindful of him? 
Surely he must have been very precious in 
the sight of God, or He would not have 
ransomed him at such a wondrous cost. 
Let us look prayerfully into this matter and 
see if we can not know ourselves, and under- 
stand our true relation to the Creator. God 
made man to do His will in earth as it is 
done in heaven, and for nearly six thousand 
years the Creator has been King and Ruler 
of the w r orld. His Son was born a king; 
of a kingdom not of this world. Man 
was created in the image and likeness 
of God. It is said, "The proper study 
of mankind is man." But this is not 



MANS RELATION TO GOD. II 

enough, for man without God is like 
a train of cars detached from the engine. 
Hence, the proper study of mankind 
is man and his relation and responsi- 
bility to God. Man, like his Creator, is a 
trinity. He has a spirit, a soul, and a body; 
i Thes. 5: 23. These natures in Adam, 
prior to the fall, worked as harmoniously as 
the three persons of the God-head. The 
spirit, soul, and body, when adjusted to the 
will of God, are like a set of measures 
within and filling each other. The spirit 
dwells in, and fills the soul, while the soul 
dwells in and fills the body. The body is 
the house of the soul, and the soul the 
house of the spirit. 

As a wise king rules his kingdom, so the 
spirit of man should rule his soul, and the 
soul the body. This world is man's king- 
dom. Gen. 1 :26. As the world is his king- 
dom, it having been created and fitted up 
for him, so the body is the soul's kingdom, 
and the soul the spirit's kingdom. A king- 
dom without a king or ruler is like an army 
without a commander, not prepared to de- 
fend itself against foes, much less conquer- 
ing its enemies. 

The mental or intellectual man is the 



12 LOVE ON FIRE. 

soul which occupies the body and has 
hands, feet, eyes, ears, and five senses within 
the senses of the body. The heart of the 
soul is the will, which dwells in the center 
of its realm, which center is within the 
physical heart, the king of the body. The 
will is the king of the soul. Derange or 
destroy the will and both soul and body 
are dead as to the great end for which thev 
were created. The soul possesses all the at- 
tributes necessary to perpetuate its existence 
endlessly, independent of the body, which 
dies when separated from it. 

The moral man is the spirit that dwells in 
the soul, and is either of Christ or of Satan, 
because man is either a Christian or a sinner. 
When God created man He placed His 
likeness in his soul and His spirit in his 
heart; thus God dwelt and reigned in the 
heart of the soul as "King of kings and 
Lord of lords." Rev. 19: 16. It is no mar- 
vel that the sweet singer of Israel said of 
himself, " I am fearfully and wonderfully 
made." Ps. 139: 14. But alas! man has 
fallen from under the hand of God into 
the hands of Satan, who rules him soul and 
body, as a tyrant king with an iron rod. 
When man fell the image of Satan was 



man's relation to god. 13 

stamped on his soul, and the image of God 
was removed therefrom. Satan has taken 
such complete control of the human heart 
and will, that when one would do good, 
evil is present to prevent it. Rom.' 7: 21. 
Yea, Satan has, with his poisonous fang, 
touched every human soul, and sown the 
seeds of disease and death in every human 
body. The poison of his sting brings moral 
death to the soul, physical death to the 
body, and damnation to both. "The wages 
of sin is death; but the gift of God is eter- 
nal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." 
Rom. 6: 23. In order to be saved the heart 
of man must be unreservedly surrendered 
to God. " My son, give Me thine heart." 
Prov. 23:26. "Ye shall seek Me and find 
Me when ye shall search for Me with all 
your heart." Jer. 29: 13. Christ or Satan 
dwells in the heart of man, according as 
his will is. If a man wills to be saved there 
is no power that can prevent it; if he wills 
to be lost, there is no power that can save 
him. Salvation comes by saying, "Thy will 
be done "- — damnation by saying, My will 
be done. Let God in the heart, and He 
will soon drive out all your and His ene- 
mies. Let Satan in your heart and he will 



14 LOVE ON FIRE. 

soon drive out all your friends and the 
friends of God. 

By conversion " the carnal mind " is re- 
moved from the heart, and the holiness of 
God enters it to cleanse and reign therein. 
Satan is cast out to make room for the birth 
of Christ in the soul. The birth of Christ 
within does not sanctify you wholly, but 
you should seek to be as soon as born of 
God. 



CHAPTER III. 



FALL AND REDEMPTION OF MAN. 

Praise the Lord for man's salvation. Oh, 
how complete and glorious it is. u As in 
Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made 
alive." i Cor. 15: 22. The life received 
by faith in Christ brings back to us all we 
lost in the fall. Then let us "Give thanks 
unto the Lord, for he is good ; for His 
mercy endureth forever." 

The image of God, in which man was 
created, was blotted from the soul of Adam 
when he ate the forbidden apple. All his 



FALL AND REDEMPTION OF MAN. 1 5 

posterity inherited from him a predisposi- 
tion to sin — all his children's teeth are set 
on edge. Ezek. 18:2. All of Adam's 
children that have arrived at the age of ac- 
countability have followed the footsteps of 
their father and have eaten of the forbidden 
fruit ; therefore every soul must have the 
touch of the blood of the Lamb of God 
who taketh away the sin of the world. 1 
John 1 : 7. The salvation wrought out by 
the Lord Jesus Christ covers all the natures 
of man — spirit, soul and body. It not only 
casts Satan's image out of the heart, but re- 
stores the image of God and makes it a fit 
temple for the Holy Ghost to dwell in. It 
cleanses the triune man. Matt. 6: 23; 8:16, 
17; 10: 7. Mark 3: 14, 15; 5: 8; 6: 13; 
16:15-18. Luke 4:40; 6:19; 10:17; 13:11- 
17. "The very God of peace sanctify you 
wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit 
and soul and body be preserved blameless 
unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
Faithful is He that calleth you who also will 
do it." 1 Thes. 5:23, 24. 

God is omniscient. There is no increase 
of knowledge with Him. All His laws are 
in force until fulfilled. Unlike man, He 
never repeals a law on account of imperfec- 



l6 LOVE ON FIRE. 

tion. When He first planned the scheme 
of redemption it was as perfect as at pres- 
ent, and will be as perfect in the day of 
judgment as in the beginning — no more so, 
no less so. Eighteen hundred years ex- 
perience in saving sinners has taught God 
nothing; neither has the cleansing of the in- 
numerable host of sinners lessened the 
cleansing power of the blood of the ever- 
lasting covenant. 

"Dear, dying - Lamb, thy precious blood 
Shall never lose its power 
Till all the ransomed church of God 
Are saved to sin no more." 

The blessed Redeemer went about doing 
good to all men everywhere; preaching the 
Gospel to the poor and rich alike, healing 
the sick and casting out evil spirits "with 
His word." Matt. 8:16. It is the grand 
privilege of God's ambassadors of the pres- 
ent day to accomplish the very same things 
"in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, " 
and by the very same power they had at 
Pentecost. 

'Tis the very same power, 
The very same power; 
'Tis the very same power 
That they had at Pentecost. 
'Tis the pow'r, the power, 
'Tis the pow'r, the power; 
'Tis the power that Jesus promised should come down. 



FALL AND REDEMPTION OF MAN. l*J 

We have the same Christ to send us, the 
same great commission to preach, and the 
promise of the same power the Apostles 
had, and any failure to accomplish the same 
things will be wholly on the human side. 
The commission given to the Apostles was 
to hold good to the end of the Gospel dis- 
pensation — the end of time. 

Hell was not prepared for man, but " for 
the Devil and his angels." Matt. 25:41. 
Nevertheless, all who die in the service of 
Satan must pass an eternity in his home, 
where the cankerworm of sin never dies,, 
where the fiery torment is never quenched, 
and where the smoke of the torment of the 
damned ascends forever and forever. No 
one need hope for the salvation of Christ 
unless he complies with the Gospel of the 
grace of God, in which this salvation is 
freely given to all mankind. Friendly read- 
er, how is it with thy soul? If Jesus should 
come to-day with ten thousand of His 
saints, with " the voice of the archangel, 
and with the trump of God," would it be 
well with thy soul? If not, then flee; flee 
to-day to the Rock that is cleft to take 
thee in. 

How far short of his privileges and du- 



1 8 LOVE ON FIRE. 

ties man has come. He is constantly leav- 
ing undone the things he should do, and as 
constantly doing the things he should not 
do. In the way of excuse for neglect and 
wrong-doing, some argue that some other 
way than the one marked out in the Gospel 
of God's dear Son will do quite as well. 
Such thoughts are suggested by the Devil. 

A constant watch the devils keep: 

They eye us night and day, 
And never slumber, never sleep, 

Lest the}' should lose their prey. 

If the Gospel of the Son of God was 
preached and practiced by Christ's ambas- 
sadors of our day, as it was preached and 
lived by the blessed Master and His holy 
Apostles, Satan's empire would tremble 
from center to circumference, and the king- 
doms of this world would soon be trans- 
formed into the kingdom of our Lord and 
Savior Jesus Christ. Instead of preach- 
ing the whole Gospel of Christ many have 
changed it to suit the religious dogmas of 
the day in order to please the itching ears 
of lukewarm professors. In so doing they 
check the work of God's grace, and hazard 
the souls of men. Oh, let us preach the 
whole Gospel and nothing but the Gospel, 
and live out the same — for then, and not 



SALVATION OF CHRIST. 19 

until then, will this wicked world be 
brought to the feet of the blessed Re- 
deemer. 



CHAPTER IV. 



SALVATION BY CHRIST. 

"Oh, horrible! A hell here! The flames 
around me! The fire within me! Burning, 
agonizing, dying! A hell to go to hell in! 
My God! But I have no God. I have re- 
jected Christ, and he who rejects Him re- 
jects the Father. Is there no hope for me?" 
"None but in Christ." "Then I am lost! O, 
hell, why did I choose you rather than 
heaven? O, Devil, why did I take heed to 
you, in preference to taking heed to God?" 

"There is life for a look." "Where? How? 
When? Tell me, oh, ye who can, how I may 
escape the fire of hell, to which I am fast 
hastening?" "He that believeth on the Son 
hath everlasting life." "Ah, that's the trou- 
ble. Believe on Jesus — He whom I have 
spurned, defied and resisted all my life? No! 
no! After spending a lifetime, that was 

given me to love, worship and obey Christ, 
2 



20 LOVE ON FIRE. 

in the service of Satan, the common enemy 
of God and man, then to throw the snuffings 
of a misspent life in the face of so good, 
gracious and holy a being as God's Son, I 
can not do it." "Then you are lost! Forever 
lost!" "I know I am. Lost without hope, 
plea, or remedy." "No! no! no! There is 
hope, plea, and a remedy in Him whom 
you reject. "\ am the way, the truth and 
the life.' Look and live." ' O, the flames of 
hell! My conscience, how thou dost goad 
me! Why have I so long stood against 
Him who still offers pardon and deliver- 
ance? Save me, good Lord, or I perish!" 

"Hark! I hear a sound as of a chariot from 
afar. Nearer it comes. Ah, I see its lone 
occupant now. How pale he looks! His 
sweat is like great drops of blood. His 
hands and feet have imprints, as though 
cruel spikes have been thrust through them. 
His body is bruised and scarred, as though 
He had been terribly beaten and maltreated. 
O, God, I know who it is! It is Christ, 
who died that I might have life. He suffered 
this that I might escape the flames of hell, 
and rise on wings of love to a mansion in 
heaven. I will praise Thee for this coming 
to me, if I am damned, O, thou Christ, the 
Holy One." 



SALVATION BY CHRIST. 21 

"But I have come to save thee." 

"Not me?" 

"Yes, thee." 

"But I am lost." 

"I came to save the lost." 

"Then, truly, Thou didst come to save 
me." 

"I did." 

"But, dear Savior, I have nothing to give 
— no merit of my own, nor none to recom- 
mend me to Thee for so great a salvation." 

"Be quiet, my child; my gifts are free to 
those who accept them as such. Will you 
take salvation now?" 

"I will. I do. I am Thine. Oh, glory ! 
hallelujah!" 

The sinner is in that broad and easy road 
that leads to the open mouth of a yawning 
hell. Jesus has made provisions to arrest 
him, by the Holy Ghost, in his mad career, 
turn him about towards heaven, and put a 
desire in his soul to run with patience the 
Christian race to glory. 

Conversion includes justification, which 
is a change of state; and regeneration, which 
is a change of nature. The first is a work done 
for us; the second a change wrought in us. 
God is the author of both. 



22 LOVE ON FIRE. 

When God pardons a sinner He changes 
his heart; so that the love of sin, as well as 
the guilt of it, is taken away. Thus we see 
when a sinner is converted he is justified 
and renewed; his sins are blotted out and he 
is made a new creature in Christ Jesus. 
God. through love to man, not only pardons 
and changes his heart, but He adopts him as 
His child, puts him into His Church, and 
sends the Holy Spirit to bear testimony 
with his spirit that he is a child of a King, 
an heir of a mansion, of a robe and a crown. 

Repentance is essential to salvation. No 
thief or murderer can enter heaven. There 
is no other way to heaven but by Jesus. 
You may try for another, but alas, it will be 
a failure. Christ is the only source of sal- 
vation. If you go into one's house, you 
want to enter by the door and not at the 
window or through the roof. There is great 
danger of being shot or kicked out as a thief 
if you do. So in entering the Church of 
Christ, if you would be recognized by God 
and the angels, you must enter through 
Christ — the door. The recording angel 
keeps the register and no man can deceive 
God. Earth's records do not save any. You 
may deceive the world and yet live in hell, 
but it is impossible to deceive God. 



SALVATION OF CHRIST. 23 

Every man must stand before God in the 
general judgment and render an account of 
the deeds done in the body. All must 
answer for themselves, and stand or fall ac- 
cording to their relation to Christ. If they 
have repented of all sin, and accepted Christ 
as their Savior, they stand justified before 
God and will be saved; if not, they will be 
lost — eternally lost. So all must repent or 
perish. 

"Time enough yet," cries the oarsman, as 
his friend on shore warns him of the rapids 
below, into which he soon glides and is 
lost. "Time enough yet," shouts the inebriate, 
as he nears the awful gulf of a drunkard's 
hell. "Time enough yet," cries the sinner, as 
he dashes madly down into the flames of 
the damned. 

"Too late," howls the demon, as his victim 
struggles to escape his fingers of death, 
"Toolate,"ejaculatesthe lost soul, as an angel 
reaches forth a helping hand. "Too late," 
wail all the unsaved sinners, as the flames 
of hell sweep over them forever and they 
are lost from earth, heaven, God, angels and 
the redeemed. Reader, is the above your 
photograph. 



24 LOVE ON FIRE. 



CHAPTER V. 



THE NEW BIRTH. 

Salvation from sin is the free gift of God, 
through the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 
It is to be obtained not by acts of righteous- 
ness which we have done or may do; (for 
"All our righteousness are as filthy rags." 
Isa. 64: 6.) but as a wholly unmerited gift 
of an independent king to an utterly un- 
worthy and wholly dependent subject. 

Grace first contrived the way 

To save rebellious man, 

And all the steps that grace displays, 

Unfold the wondrous plan. 

In order to salvation, one must believe 
himself to be a helpless and lost sinner, 
Jesus Christ to be the Son of God and only 
Savior, repent of his sins and turn to the 
Lord who will delight to have mercy, and 
to our God who will abundantly pardon, 
Isa. 55:6,7. 

Before conversion the sinner has his back 
to Christ, to heaven, to angels and to God 
— his face to sin, to sinners, to devils, and 



THE NEW BIRTH. 25 

to hell — but when converted he turns his 
back on the latter and his face to the form- 
er. Friendly reader, how is it with thee? 
Is thy back turned to Christ, thy best 
friend? Let thy heart answer in the secret 
chamber of thy immortal soul. Remem- 
ber that if thy heart condemns thee, God is 
greater than thy heart and will condemn 
thee, too. i John 3: 20, 21. When one 
is born from above, God sends the Holy 
Spirit into the heart as a witness to the 
work done, and as an infallible guide to the 
new-born soul. Rom. 8: 14-16; John 
16: 13; 1 John 5: 10; 1 Cor. 3: 16; 6: 19. 
"Ye must be born again," said the Master. 
At the spiritual birth, "the carnal mind" 
(which always is at " enmity against God") 
is cast out, and the spiritual mind, which is 
life and peace, is imparted to the soul. 
Rom. 8: 6-8. This new spiritual life [is 
the body and blood of Christ, which the 
dear Savior said we must eat of and drink, 
in order to have spiritual life. John 6: 53. 
This spiritual nature escapes with the soul 
at death, and becomes the spiritual body; 
which the soul inhabits until the final resur- 
rection, at which time it will receive a glo- 
rified body. I Cor. 15: 44. The new birth 



26 LOVE ON FIRE. 

is the beginning of the existence of this 
spiritual body within us, and is as real as 
was our natural birth, or the birth of the 
human nature of Christ. If true to God 
and our own souls, we will persevere until 
the carnal nature is cast out of both soul and 
body, so that the child Jesus born within 
may grow, until we are filled with all the 
fullness of God. 

Turning from all sin with a full purpose 
of heart to forsake it, and turning to God 
with full purpose of heart to serve Him, 
constitutes evangelical repentance. The 
evidence of such repentance is confession 
of sin to God, and making restitution to 
those whom we have wronged, to the 
fullest extent of our ability. We are sorry 
to say that the latter evidence is too fre- 
quently wanting. See Luke 19: 8. This 
means far more than to join church, and 
live as thousands are living, with no spirit- 
ual life, no power. 

We will close this chapter by quoting three 
golden invitations that fell from the lips of 
Him who spake as never did man: "Him 
that cometh to Me, I will in no wise cast 
out." John 6: 37. "In the last day, that 
great day of the feast, Jesus stood and 



TRINITY OF FAITH. 27 

cried, saying, 'If any man thirst, let him 
come to Me and drink.'" John 7: 37. 
"Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are 
heavy laden, and I will give you rest." 
Matt. 11:28. 



CHAPTER VI. 



TRINITY OF FAITH. 

Faith, like the God -head, is a trinity in 
unity. In it we have asking-faith, receiv- 
ing-faith, and overcoming-faith, following 
each other in the order just named. Ask- 
ing-faith is given first. God gives this 
with each of His promises. He creates the 
desire in the heart of the sinner to come to 
Him. Except the Father draw the sinner 
he will not come to Jesus. John 6: 44. 
The desire to come, the knowledge as to 
how to come, and the asking-faith — all are 
of God. Asking-faith, and the knowledge 
how to ask, accompany each gift bestowed 
on man. 

The way of eternal life has been made so 
plain and easy that they who neglect it are 
left without a single excuse. In the judg- 



28 LOVE ON FIRE. 

ment day all these will be as speechless as, 
and share the fate of, the man who had not 
on the wedding garment. Matt. 22: i2 r 
13. As the king furnished each invited 
guest with a wedding garment, so the Lord 
offers to furnish the garment of salvation 
to each one who desires and asks for it. 

Every desire created in the heart by God, 
is a promise given by the Holy Spirit, and 
points to man's need. When man is true to 
God He will give him desires covering all 
the needs of both soul and body. The 
knowledge given with each desire shows 
our need of the things desired. When God 
gives a desire for a certain thing, He will 
grant the thing desired. He never tantal- 
izes His children with a blessing He does 
not intend to give. Matt 7: 7-1 1. 

To obtain the thing desired we must be- 
lieve the desire is of the Lord, and ask for 
the witness to this end. God's witness to 
man is His will spoken in the soul by the 
Holy Ghost. To get a desire cashed at 
heaven's bank we must accept it as coming 
from God, and ask for the witness to that 
effect. In thus accepting a desire we make 
up our minds to ask God to cash His check 
at sight. Getting the consent of the mind 



TRINITY OF FAITH. 29 

to ask, is the submission of the human will 
to that of the divine. It is marvelously 
strange that a great portion of the desires 
created by the Lord, or checks on the bank 
of heaven, are neglected or thrown away. 
How utterly foolish would he be thought 
who would reject or throw away a check 
for $100,000, signed by all the officials of 
the First National Bank of our city! How 
much more foolish is he who rejects or 
throws away a check on the bank of heaven 
for eternal life, when it is presented as a 
gift and signed by the Father, Son and 
Holy Ghost! 

To ascertain whether a desire is from the 
Lord we must ask for the witness and hold 
on to God with all faith and knowledge 
received until we hear the voice of God 
speaking in the soul. Whatever the still, 
small voice whispers in the soul is the will 
of God and should be our guide. 

The conscience in the Holy Ghost always 
speaks of our need of Christ. The Word 
says, " My God shall supply all your need 
according to His riches in glory by Christ 
Jesus." Phil. 4: 19. 

To obtain the knowledge of God and the 
asking-faith from the desire, we must ask 



30 LOVE ON FIRE. 

without doubting (" He that doubteth is 
damned." Rom. 14: 23.) for the witness, 
which is the word spoken by the Holy 
Ghost in the soul. When we ask God, 
from one of His given desires, with all the 
knowledge and faith accompanying it, if 
He will grant the desire of the heart, He 
always answers back in the desire — "Yes." 
When we hear the voice of God speaking 
in the soul, our faith leaps from the desire 
into the witness or word of God, and brings 
forth taking-faith, which enables us to re- 
ceive the gifts offered by our heavenly 
Father. 

Taking-faith is received with the witness 
from God from a given desire. Every wit- 
ness given by God is accompanied by tak- 
ing-faith, which is much stronger than ask- 
ing-faith. In asking-faith we believe from 
a desire; while in taking-faith we believe 
in the word of God. There is great differ- 
ence between belief for a thing and faith in 
that thing ; the latter is much the strongest. 
In the former we have the desire with- 
out the evidence, while in the latter we 
have both. Belief for a thing grows out of 
a felt want, and without internal evidence 
from God; while the latter has not only the 



TRINITY OF FAITH. 3 1 

external promise accompanying the desire, 
but the internal witness or Holy Ghost, 
bearing witness with our spirit that the 
thing desired is granted and awaits our 
taking. "What things soever ye desire, 
when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, 
and ye shall have them." Mark 1 1 : 24. 

Having received taking-faith, together 
with the knowledge as to how to use it, 
we should take the gift as coming from 
the God-given desire; therefore from God. 
In receiving God's gifts our faith becomes 
stronger than Satan's power of resistance. 
If our taking-faith is weaker than Satan's 
power it may be made more perfect and 
powerful. The trial of our faith, or per- 
fecting of it for greater power, is holding 
on to God and persevering through opposi- 
tion until victory is obtained. 

To obtain power to receive God's bless- 
ings, and to do His will on earth as it is 
done in heaven, we must have perfect faith. 
When our faith is finished, by the trial of it, 
it will embrace "love, joy, peace, long-suf- 
ering," etc., and these rest upon us until the 
power is perfected within, when we should 
at once take the gift sought. We take the 
power, from time to time, as w r e are able to 



32 LOVE ON FIRE. 

receive it, and the Holy Ghost gives the 
knowledge of it and tells how to use it. 

Overcoming-faith will enable us to keep 
and use, to the glory of God, the gifts and 
graces He has so graciously given. This 
faith is as necessary to the Christian as ask- 
ing-faith or taking-faith. Without it no one 
could retain or use the blessings received of 
the Lord. " He that overcometh shall in- 
herit all things; and I will be his God, and 
he shall be my son." Rev. 21: 7. Over- 
coming-faith is received with the gift taken 
by asking-faith, which grows out of the de- 
sire given by the Lord. Asking-faith, when 
properly used, secures taking-faith, which, 
when used aright, secures overcoming-faith. 
We do not get over-coming-faith until we 
take the things desired of the Lord. God 
does not give one a thing he does not need. 
The promise is, " My God shall supply all 
your need." We do not need overcoming- 
faith until we have received something from 
the hand of God, Satan desires to take away 
from us. Rev. 12: 7-1 1. 



FAITH AND WORKS. 33 



CHAPTER VII. 



FAITH AND WORKS. 

All we need is freely provided by God. 
The body and soul need many things to 
save them from death and hell, and to pre- 
pare them for life and heaven. These wants 
are all met through faith and works. Both 
are essential. Faith and works should har- 
monize. As soul and body should agree in 
all things, so ought faith and works. Faith 
without works is dead. So is the body with- 
out the soul. God made provisions in the 
atonement for soul and body, so He has for 
faith and works. The soul and body are 
saved through these channels. Faith is the 
master, works the servant. In all things 
the master should rule. As the soul should 
rule the body, so ought faith to rule works. 
When this is done, and faith is^made perfect 
through the truth, soul and body will be 
saved up to the standard of truth, as revealed 
in the Bible. We are saved "by grace 
through faith, and that notjof ourselves; it 
is the gift of God." Eph. 2: 8. 

According to our faith so is our salvation. 



34 LOVE AND FIRE. 

Man gets what he believes for. God has a 
channel for everything. Man must seek 
each needed want through God's channel to 
possess it. All things are yours if rightly 
sought for. Faith produces works. Believe 
right and you will act right. The world is 
full of unbelief. It is the damning sin of 
the age. Devils believe more than some 
professed Christians. "Lord, increase our 
faith! 1 ' 

Every spiritual blessing man enjoys comes 
through faith. "By faith we live" (Gal. 
i: 20.), "stand" (2 Cor. 1: 24.), "walk" 
(2 Cor. 5: 7.), "conquer" (1 John 5: 4.), 
"endure" (Heb. 11 : 27.), "are sanctified" 
(Acts 26: 18.), "are healed" (Mark 
16: 17.), "and preserved to the end" (Heb. 
10: 38.). There is no other way of prevail- 
ing save through faith in God. 

By faith, Peter walked on the angry 
waves of the Galilean Sea to go to Jesus. 
It was a wonderful walk. The life of faith 
is a life of wonders. Our lives should be a 
constant and close walk with God, hence a 
life of wonder. Is it such with us? If not, 
we are not walking with God as we should. 
If our lives have nothing wonderful in them, 
nothing to distinguish us from the world, 



FAITH AND WORKS. 35 

we certainly are not in line with the won- 
der-working God. 

The life of faith is above and beyond the 
ordinary and natural life of man. Peter's 
walking on the water was beyond his nat- 
ural powers. Before this, no one (save 
Christ) had ever walked on the water. 
Thus it is, that those who walk close with 
God are enabled to have an influence, and 
perform deeds not possible to those who do 
not walk with Him. "Enoch walked with 
God," and "God took him" because he 
walked with Him. Gen. 5: 24. 

The walk of faith is a triumphal one. By 
it we may have power to bring this world 
to Christ. As Peter walked on the angry 
waves of the sea, so we, by faith, may walk 
on the angry waves of sin and not sink, but 
bring Jesus across the angry waters of 
death to perishing sinners that He may 
take them in the "life-boat." If Christ calls 
you, step out on His promises. Peter had 
no power to support himself on the raging 
sea; nevertheless he walked in perfect 
safety as long as he kept his eyes on the 
Master, but began to sink as soon as he 
looked away from Him. So it is in the 

Christian life; we must step out on the 

3 



36 LOVE ON FIRE. 

naked promise of God, trusting in it to the 
very letter, remembering that He has said 
in His immutable Word, "My grace is suf- 
ficient for thee," "I will never leave thee, 
nor forsake thee." 2 Cor. 12: 9; Heb. 

There is a great difference between the 
faith of many and the faith of the Son of 
God. T.he faith we need is independent of 
ours. Such faith sympathizes with the 
poor, sick and distressed of our land. There 
are two kinds of faith. Nearly everybody 
has the general faith; but the faith not of 
man is the faith we want. The reason why 
so little faith is exercised is because we have 
not the faith of the Son of God. When we 
get this faith we will see great changes. 

The presence of the Holy Ghost in the 
soul gives the faith we need. It comes from 
God — is of God. When we get it we will 
have the same faith Jesus had. Faith is 
taking God at His word. Then we can 
laugh at seeming impossibilities and cry, "It 
shall be done." The prophets made the ax 
swim and the fire fall, by faith. "According 
to your faith be it unto you," is a universal 
law of God in bestowing gifts to His chil- 
dren. "All are yours," on condition you 



FOLLOWING JESUS. 37 

receive them by faith. Are you believing 
for all God has done for you? 

God's universal law is, that no blessing 
outside of those given in common to all men 
is available without the exercise of faith. 
Therefore, salvation from sin, or any of its 
effects on the spirit, soul or body, is received 
purely on the condition of a living, active 
faith in the atonement made once for all. 
In fact, Christ is "made unto us wisdom, and 
righteousness, and sanctification, and re- 
demption," by our exercise of faith in Him, 
"who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who 
healeth all thy diseases." Ps. 103: 3. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



FOLLOWING JESUS. 

God is able to save to the uttermost. He 
who can raise the dead, as he did Lazarus, 
can make alive those dead in sin, or heal 
those who are sick. Now give to God the 
things that belong to Him. Withhold 
nothing that is due Him. Many have 
vowed and have not paid their vows. 

Glory to God, He is able to keep us. He 



38 LOVE ON FIRE. 

kept the three Hebrew children, amidst the 
flames of the furnace, and He will keep us 
if we trust in Him. Daniel was delivered 
from the lion's den, M©ses from the wrath 
of Pharaoh, and David from the murderous 
thrust of Saul. Fear not, but trust the liv- 
ing God. 

The Devil trembles when he sees 
The weakest saint get on his knees. 

We were created for the glory of God. 
Let us be true to Him, so that our words 
and acts shall not surrender us to the Devil. 
Give up the Devil's trappings. Step over 
the line and trust. 

Many cripple themselves through neglect 
to testify to the salvation God has given 
them. Honor God with your every-day 
walk and life. If we do not, we dishonor 
Him and hazard our own salvation. "These 
are they which came out of great tribulation, 
and have washed their robes and made them 
white in the blood of the Lamb." Such, 
only, shall enter the kingdom of heaven. 

God sees us through and through. See 
Him out on the barren mountain of sin seek- 
ing the lost. Behold, this is the day of 
salvation. Ho! every one that thirsteth, 
come and drink of the water of life. Haste 
to Him now. 



FOLLOWING JESUS. 39 

Heaven has millions of gifts for the saints 
of God. Have no hobby, but take them 
all. Be a whole Christian. Take the word 
of God. Everything of God is of revelation. 
We may have an experience that the gates 
of hell cannot prevail against. O, how 
many have they prevailed against! While 
we want the gifts of God, we need to be es- 
tablished in Christ's church — not my church, 
nor your church, but His church. "Upon 
this rock I will build My church, and the 
gates of hell shall not prevail against it." 
Matt. 16: 18. 

Christ's church must receive the whole 
Gospel. They who deny any part of the 
Gospel turn themselves out of the church. 
If you do not understand God's church, 
keep your hands off of it, for you would 
better dig your own grave and bury your- 
self than attempt to steady the ark. He 
who rejects the ark, which is Christ in the 
saved, is liable to be stricken dead, as were 
Ananias and Sapphira. You may fight 
creeds, but you must never fight the Church 
of God; he who does it fights against God. 
It is death to do this. 

The bride is the church of the first born. 
If we are converted to God we are espoused 



4-0 LOVE ON FIRE. 

to Christ, and when sanctified we are mar- 
ried to Him. If we are married to Christ, 
and lust after the things of the earth, we 
commit adultery. The Holy Spirit wants 
to bring us back to chastity and purity. 
We may serve God in righteousness and 
holiness all the days of our life if we will 
let the Son make us free. "If any man 
keep My sayings he shall not taste death." 

"Behold what manner of love the Father 
hath bestowed upon us, that we should be 
called the sons of God." So we sustain the 
same relation to God that Jesus does. For, 
beloved, now are we the sons of God, and 
if sons, then heirs — heirs of God and joint 
heirs with our Lord Jesus Christ. The 
glorious liberty of the sons of God is at 
hand. 

Prepare to see His wonders, and see face 
to face and know as we are known. "He 
that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself 
even as He is pure." Christ came to take 
away our sin and sickness. Let us press 
through the crowd of unbelief as did the 
woman who touched the hem of Christ's 
garment and was made whole, and get 
healed of sin and all its contaminations. 
Let us do it now, for Jesus' sake. Amen! 



ENTIRE CONSECRATION. 41 



CHAPTER IX. 



ENTIRE CONSECRATION. 

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, 
that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, accept- 
able unto God, lohich is your reasonable service. Rom. 12: 1. 

To be wholly and holily consecrated to 
God means a great work. Many do not 
comprehend, but think it a small matter. 
The above text indicates that the body, as 
well as the soul, is to be a "holy" sacrifice; 
that is to say, a pure one. To be conse- 
crated to God, as were the Hebrew chil- 
dren, means something. They were ready 
to live or die for their Master. The conse- 
cration required is that of the Apostle Paul, 
when he said: "What mean ye to weep 
and to break mine heart? fori am ready not 
to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusa- 
lem for the name of the Lord Jesus." Acts 
21: 13. 

As Christ died once for ail, so should we 
die to self and enter into an everlasting 
union with Him. When our all — spirit, 
soul and body — are laid on the altar of God, 



42 LOVE NO FIRE. 

Christ sanctifies the gift and makes us holy 
as He is holy. 

Bible consecration means death to the 
world, death to the flesh, and an entire ex- 
communication of the Devil from both soul 
and body. It means just what the dear 
Savior said when he prayed, "Thy king- 
dom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it 
is in heaven." Matt. 6* 10. Supreme 
love to Christ, and this only, will enable 
one to make such a consecration. The He- 
brew children had this love to such a degree 
that they were willing to burn in the fiery 
furnace if it would please God. When our 
lives are "hid with Christ in God," then it 
is that He can and will trust us. Col. 3: 3. 
When thus consecrated we can pass through 
fiery trials victoriously. 

In the natural and spiritual world life 
comes through death. The seed is cast into 
the earth and dies, and from its death springs 
new life. So, also, we must die to sin, that 
we may have a new life in Christ Jesus. 
Rom. 6: 11. In religion, to go down in 
the valley of humiliation is to get ready and 
to go up on the mount of spiritual transfig- 
uration. "Whosoever shall exalt himself 
shall be abased; and he that shall humble 



ENTIRE CONSECRATION. 43 

himself shall be exalted." Matt. 23: 12. 
As a hill or mountain begins at every val- 
ley, so spiritual exaltation must begin at 
every valley of humiliation. The deeper 
the valley, the higher the exaltation. Here 
we have natural law in spiritual life. 

Bless the Lord for full and free salvation. 
It is for all — none need be without it. The 
floodgates of salvation to me have been 
thrown open wide and my soul is basking 
in ineffable glory. Hallelujah! But alas, 
alas, multitudes are still walking in the 
broad and downward road that leads to 
eternal death and endless hell. O let us 
plunge into the fountain filled with blood, 
be cleansed from all sin, that God may use 
us in rescuing the perishing. Jesus went 
down into the garden of Gethsemane, pros- 
trated Himself on the cold ground, agonizing 
for us until His sweat was, as it were, great 
drops of blood. He went to the death-line 
and prayed, " Father, if it be possible let this 
cup pass." It could not pass; therefore He 
passed over the death-line, and voluntarily 
gave Himself a living sacrifice for us all. 

The Devil tried to persuade Jesus to not 
sacrifice Himself, but He thrust him aside, 
plunged into crucifixion and death, went 



44 LOVE ON FIRE. 

into the grave, rose triumphantly from it, 
conquering the Devil, death, hell and the 
grave, thereby securing eternal redemption 
for us on the easy terms of His everlasting 
Gospel. Are we willing to yield to death 
to sin for Him who has done such great 
things for us? The old man of sin must 
die within us that we may be made alive 
to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

We do not get the salvation Jesus died 
to obtain for us until we receive the Holy 
Ghost. The sealing comes after pardon, 
and is the inheritance of the believer. Could 
you conceive of a more exalted position than 
to sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus? 
This is the position He calls us to. Do not 
put off your great privilege in Christ; for, 
behold now is the day of salvation. Having 
surrendered all to Jesus we are introduced 
into the holy of holies, where all is peace 
and joy in the Holy Ghost. Come, then, 
to-day; for the night of death may over- 
take you this hour, and then it will be too 
late. Too late — too late will be the cry; 
Jesus of Nazareth has passed by. See what 
wonderful power Peter had on the day of 
Pentecost when he charged the Jews with 
having slain the Lord of Glory. Where 



ENTIRE CONSECRATION. 45 

from, and how did he get such wonderful 
power? He got it from heaven, and by 
tarrying, by praying and believing it would 
come. 

a < " 'Twas while they all were praying, 
And believing it would come, 
Came the power, the power, 
That Jesus promised should come down." 

So, also, we should tarry until we receive 
the Holy Ghost; then the same mighty 
works shall be done by us. If this should 
cause some to be put in jail it would doubt- 
less be the salvation of the prisoners and of 
many others. Lord, give us this sin-slaying 
and soul-saving power until all the socials, 
broom-drills, wheelbarrow-entertainments 
and all other works of the Devil are de- 
stroyed. God can take a worm and thrash 
a mountain. He can cause the Jordan to 
divide to let us enter the land that flows 
with milk and honey. When fully saved 
we can and will reach others. Men and 
women are sinking to destruction every day 
because we do not reach out and save them. 

Rescue the perishing, care for the dying; 
Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save. 



46 LOVE ON FIRE. 



CHAPTER X. 



HOLY GHOST FIRE. 

It is coming. Like the thunder's roar it 
may be heard. Yon vivid light, to one not 
acquainted with its destructive power, 
might be termed beautiful. But our opin- 
ion of it does not change its character in 
the least. On it comes. Death is in its 
track. Like perdition, it swallows up all 
it overtakes. See its darting tongue of 
fire. No mortal being can check or turn 
aside its onward course. My God, the 
great prairie is on fire! We are fifty miles 
from any known place of safety, and be- 
fore one- tenth of that distance can be 
reached the flames will overtake us. Swift 
horse, run, run for your life, for the angel 
of death is on our track! But why go far- 
ther? You are already exhausted. I can 
hear your loud panting, and see the white 
foam bursting from your exhausted body. 

Must we die? Is .there no hope? Stop, 
horse, we can't outride the maddening 



HOLY GHOST FIRE. 47 

flames. Let us use the only known rem- 
edy. Let us fight fire with fire. O, for a 
match, a coal, a torch, a little fire. But I have 
none. Give me fire. Ever so little — so it 
is fire. I must have fire. 'Tis fire or 
death. My God, give me fire. I will give 
you my watch, money, horse, farm, yea, all 
I have, for fire. Vain offer. God's favor is 
not to be bought by man's possessions. 

Try it again. O, for fire! Great God, I 
give myself to Thee; wilt Thou for Jesus* 
sake, send me a little fire? Ah, that flash 
of lightening dazzles me. But see, O, see 
where it struck, the grass caught fire! 
Glory to God, we have got fire. I thank 
Thee, O God, for heaven-sent fire. It has 
saved me. Roll on, thou nearing flames, I 
fear thee not. Thou mayest rage like the 
flames of hell, rolling out to destroy sin- 
ners, but I am safe. As safe as the soul 
from which the Holy Ghost fire has burned 
out all sin; for to such the flames of hell 
can not reach, nor in such can they find any 
thing to burn. 

This way, good horse, keep close to me. 
Let ©ur breath fan on the heaven-sent fire. 
It is burning faster and faster. Let us fol- 
low it up close. There, by lying on our 



48 LOVE ON FIRE. 

faces, we will now be safe. But we will 
trust God for more. The breath of the 
sea of fire fans on our saving fire. See 
how it spreads and gathers power at 
every breath. It is already a great fire. 
Up, good horse, we may now, in safety, 
stand on yon burned spot, and shout defi- 
ance to a million prairie fires. 

Wonderful! Surrounded by a sea of 
fire. The two have met, yet we are safe. 
Hallelujah! The fire that threatened our 
lives is already dying out, and the one in 
answer to prayer is out-ranking it in bril- 
liancy and power. Thus God's fire out- 
ranks Satan's, as His power does the 
power of the great arch fiend. So now, 
dear horse, we may pass on our way over 
this burned district in as great safety as a 
blood-washed soul can traverse this sin- 
cursed earth on his way to the paradise of 
God. 

God's fire can burn out and destroy all 
sin. Cast all on the altar and it will sanctify 
the gift. "Be ye clean, saith the Lord." 
O Lord, let Holy Ghost fire fall on all the 
people. It is a thousand times better to 
have the Holy Ghost fire burn all sin out of 
us than to have the fire of sin burn in us 



HOLY GHOST FIRE. 49 

ill hell forever and forever. If we get all 
sin out of our hearts, hell will not have us 
at any price. Both sin and holiness will 
seek its level and its own. 

God is omnific and equal to any emer- 
gency. When fully trusting in Him one 
can walk through a den of lions. Satan 
did not have in the beginning, has not now, 
and never will have power equal to or su- 
perior to God. The Devil is to be "cast into 
the lake of fire and brimstone, where the 
beast and the false prophet are, and shall 
be tormented forever and ever." Rev. 20:10. 
Daniel slept soundly among the blood- 
thirsty lions, with angels for his body-guard. 
The Hebrew children walked through the 
flames of the furnace, and came out with- 
out the smell of fire on their garments. 
Likewise may Christians now walk through 
the flames of sin without being contami- 
nated with it. Are we fully saved? If 
not, why? We cannot serve God with 
perfect acceptability until we are wholly 
given up to Him, spirit, soul and body. 
Oh, for the holy fire — sin-killing, carnal- 
consuming fire! More of this fire, and less 
preaching of theories, is the great need of 
to-day. Lord let the fire come on all the 



5<D LOVE ON FIRE. 

people and destroy all sin. fire! fire!! 
fire!!! 



CHAPTER XI. 



PURITY OF HEART. 

The destruction of the carnal nature or 
effects of sin is as much the work of God 
as is the pardoning of the sinner. This work 
follows the former (if only a second), and is 
done instantaneously. Upright living will 
not destroy the effects of sin, neither will 
sickness, sorrow or death. Jesus alone can 
do this. He who has the power to purify 
a soul, can keep it pure. Purity of heart 
is a holy state, and is to be obtained by a 
full and complete consecration to God. He, 
seeing our faith and act of consecration^ 
applies the cleansing blood, and the work 
is done. 

We never can grow into a state of purity 
of heart, because growth implies adding to 
that which already exists; while this purity 
is obtained by taking from, or the removal 
of carnality or the effects of sin from the 
soul. In the work of redemption, the first 



PURITY OF HEART. 5 I 

act is that of giving eternal life to those who 
are dead in trespasses and sins; the next, 
the exchanging of carnality for holiness in 
the soul; and the next the purification of 
the body for the reception of spiritual 
power to glorify God. These three experi- 
ences follow each other in the order named, 
though it may be but a second apart, and 
must all be received before God's will is 
done in earth as it is in heaven. Matt. 
6: 10. After these are received the work 
of maturing the spirit, soul and body in all 
the Christian gifts and graces may, and 
should be carried on in Christ Jesus forever. 
It was in a vision, or trance, that Ezekiel 
saw a holy stream of water running out of 
the Lord's house. As it ran, it became 
broader and broader, deeper and deeper, 
until it was a mighty river, that he could 
not pass over. Ezek. 47: 1-5/ The life 
of every Christian should be like this stream, 
ever growing broader and deeper, as it flows 
on toward the City of God. The reason many 
Christian lives flow on so feebly is because 
there is but little Holy Ghost power in 
them. The unconverted soul is spiritually 
dead, and can no more send forth spiritual 
life than a dry fountain can send forth pure 



52 LOVE ON FIRE. 

water. It is not enough that a fountain 
have water in it; it must be filled full to the 
very top before it can flow out in a stream 
to gladden the earth. So it is with the 
Christian; he must not only have the Holy 
Ghost in his soul, but should have it filled 
full up to the very top, then when God 
pours in more grace the fountain of living 
water will flow out and bless others. 
Friendly reader, how is it with you? It is 
useless for the sinner to seek purity of heart 
first. Nothing short of pardon, regenera- 
tion, adoption, and the witness of the Holy 
Spirit will prepare one for the reception of 
purity of the heart. 

All the works of God are perfect. He 
gave us a perfect Savior, a perfect Gospel, 
and requires a perfect life at the hand of 
each of His children. As gold is purified 
by the fire, so God's children are to be 
cleansed from the last and least remains of 
sin by the Fire of the Holy Ghost. The 
ore must first be found, then dug out, then 
crushed, then burned in the fire, until the 
refiner can see his image reflected in the 
metal— then it is pure. So it is with the 
sinner; he must first be found (for by nature 
he is lost), then dug out of the pit of sin, 



PURITY OF HEART. 53 

then crushed by conviction, then burned in 
the crucible of the Holy Ghost until the 
image of the divine Refiner (the Savior) 
appears in his heart, then the dross, the sin, 
is all consumed. Mai. 3: 3. 

Being born of God, the converted soul, if 
true to Him, soon develops to man or woman- 
hood, and, through love, is sanctified or marri- 
ed to Christ. The marriage relation includes a 
voluntary contract, which can not be made 
before birth or after death, so sanctification 
is a voluntary state, entered into between 
Christ and a free moral agent, and must 
take place between one's spiritual birth and 
natural death. Before conversion the soul 
is dead in trespasses and sins. At death its 
probation ends. So in either case the soul 
is not eligible to enter the marriage relation 
with Christ. As one marries to dwell with 
his companion, and not to die and be sepa- 
rated, so should every converted soul at 
once enter the holy of holies, and dwell 
with God here on earth, while He wills it, 
as well as forever in heaven. 



54 LOVE ON FIRE. 



CHAPTER XII. 



THE EXTENT OF SALVATION. 

Once I was lost, but now am found; was 
blind, but now I see. When lost, I was a 
child of Satan, but when God found me I 
became His child. I was saved through the 
sufferings, death and blood of Jesus Christ. 

What did wash away my sin? 

Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 
What did make me pure within? 

Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 

CHORUS. 

Oh, precious is the flow 

That makes me white as snow; 
No other fount I know — 

Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 
In my hands no price could bring — 

Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 
Simply to His cross did cling, 

Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 

I cheerfully accepted the offer of salva- 
tion as a free gift from the crucified hands 
of Jesus — then He took me up in His 
blessed arms and plunged me deep down in 
the fountain filled with His own precious 
blood, and when I came out was whiter 
than snow. Thus saved, I am to have eter- 



THE EXTENT OF SALVATION. 55 

nal life, instead of eternal death; eternal 
heaven, instead of eternal hell. 

Many, through ignorance of their privi- 
leges in the Gospel, come to Jesus for par- 
don and cleansing of their souls, but leave 
their bodies still in Satan's dominion. They 
bring the sin-sick soul to Him to be re- 
generated and sanctified, while they leave 
the diseased body, which was made so by 
sin, still in its deplorable condition, and 
thereby thwart the will of God. A healthy 
body is often as necessary to God's service 
as a sanctified soul. For instance, a man is 
dying without Christ, you alone can win 
him to Christ. He sends for you, but alas, 
the Devil is lashing your body with a burn- 
ing fever, so that you cannot go to the sick 
man, and he dies and sinks to hell because 
you neglected to exercise faith in God to 
keep your body from disease, or, when af- 
flicted, to go to the Great Physician and be 
cured. Souls are perishing day by day, all 
around us, because God has not got active 
children to reach them. 

This doctrine Jesus taught the Apostles 
they were to teach to others, and their suc- 
cessors to others, and so on down to the 
end of the Gospel dispensation — the end of 



56 LOVE ON FIRE. 

time. This old Gospel cannot be improved 
on by men, by angels, or God. In the 
scheme of redemption God gave us His 
best wisdom, best love, and best gift of 
heaven. How fearful the blunder when 
our great city paper said, "The methods in 
vogue with these emotional brethren, and 
often alluded to as 'old-fashioned religion,' 
will in time give way to more quiet, modern 
and improved flans of saving souls ." 

When the Savior sent the Apostles out on 
the limited commission "He gave them 
power against unclean spirits to cast them 
out, and to heal all manner of sickness and 
all manner of disease." He also said to 
them, "Heal the sick." Matt. 10: 1, 8. 
When He sent forth the seventy He in- 
structed them to "heal the sick." Luke, 
10: 9. When the Master gave the Apostles 
His farewell commission He told them to 
"cast out devils," to heal the sick, and He 
would be with them to the end. Mark 16: 
17-19. We are under the old Gospel dis- 
pensation — let us walk strictly according to 
the old paths — the old-time religion, and 
expect the blessing of the very same power 
they had at Pentecost. 



PURIFICATION. 57 



CHAPTER XIII. 



PURIFICATION. 

Purity fits man for the reception of spir- 
itual power. The strength or power of 
almost everything depends largely on its 
purity. As steam is the combined strength 
of fire and water, so is purity the combined 
strength of the gifts and fruits of the Spirit, 
i Cor. 12: 8-10; Gal. 5: 22. As will and 
muscle are necessary to action, so justifica- 
tion and sanctification are necessary to 
purity. Purity is the beginning of spiritual 
power. One can only receive and use 
power in proportion to the extent of his or 
her purity. In preparing the Apostles for 
their great life work the divine Master 
breathed on them and said, ''Receive ye the 
Holy Ghost." John 20: 22. After this, on 
the day of Pentecost, they were filled with 
the Holy Ghost. Acts 2: 4. All power 
for good belongs to God. Purification em- 
braces the whole man, spirit, soul and 
body. The desire for purity is created by 



58 LOVE ON FIRE. 

the Lord, and if followed out may be 
blessed to the receiving of purity of soul 
and body. Thus the whole man is perme- 
ated and filled with purity — the power of 
God. Purification of the body is obtained 
by degrees, because our gifts and graces are 
all received that way. These degrees 
should be taken as fast as God gives the 
desire and knowledge concerning them. 
"Whosoever is born of God doth not com- 
mit sin, for his seed remaineth in him" 
(Jesus being born in him by the Holy 
Ghost), and can not sin because he is born 
of God." 1 John 3: 9. Therefore when born 
of God we should ask for heart purity, and 
hold on by the rope of faith until we re- 
ceive it. Receiving heart purity, like con- 
version, is an instantaneous work, but the 
coming to it may have been the work of 
years. The receiving of purity of body, as 
we shall proceed to explain, is gradual. 

When God created man, He gave him a 
body as an essential part of his being; and 
his usefulness and happiness depend on 
the physical man. Therefore let us pre- 
sent our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, ac- 
ceptable unto God, which is our reasonable 
service. Rom, 12: 1; Matt. 5: 29; 1 Cor. 



PURIFICATION. 59 

6: 15; 9: 27; i Thes. 5: 23; Dan. 3: 28; 
Rom. 8: 23; Phil. 3: 21. To get this over- 
flow, or power, from the soul into the 
body our wills must be completely subju- 
gated to the will of God. That is to say, 
we must agree to let God forever have 
complete control of our bodies for His 
glory — His temple. Our wills must be 
swallowed up in His will for time and eter- 
nity. There must be no mental reservation 
whatever. Having thus submitted our wills 
to God, we must steadfastly hold on to His 
promise until we receive the purification 
sought. 

The trial of faith purifies the soul, and 
the tried or finished faith causes the power 
to pass into the body and purify it. When 
this is done God gives the witness of entire 
purification, which is the third grace. Acts 
4: 23-33. ^ * s tne finished work of faith 
that takes the power into the body. This 
perfection comes by degrees as we become 
able to bear it. The trial of faith and the per- 
fection comes in like manner. 1 P. 1 : 7. 
When God perfects the first degree of 
purity, or that which we are able to bear, He 
gives us the witness of the Holy Ghost to 
this effect; and so on from one degree to 



60 LOVE ON FIRE. 

another until all the gifts and graces He 
has for us are received, then it is we re- 
ceive the witness of the Holy Ghost, that 
the work of God within us is complete in 
every respect, and we receive a divine 
shock from the divine battery, that fills us 
from finger tips to end of toes. Yea, then 
it is we are filled with all the fullness of 
God, and with Paul can say, "I am cruci- 
fied with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not 
I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life 
which I now live in the flesh I live by the 
faith of the Son of God, who loved me 
and gave Himself for me." Gal. 2: 20; 
Col. 3: 3; 1 Cor. 3: 22; Rom. 8: 38. In 
perfecting the work of purity from spirit to 
soul, and from soul to body, God carries 
out the natural law seen in all His works 
of utilizing and working by means already 
produced. Thus it is we should advance 
from strength to strength in faith, from 
strength to strength in power, and from 
strength to strength in love. The strength 
of faith works in the strength of power, 
and the strength of power in the 
strength of love. O, the wonderful 
salvation of the blessed Jesus Christ! 
"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither 



THE ANOINTING POWER. 6l 

have entered into the heart of man, the 
things which God hath prepared for them 
that love Him. But God hath revealed 
them to us by His Spirit, for the Spirit 
searcheth all things, yea the deep things of 
God." i Cor. 2: 9, 10. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



THE ANOINTING POWER. 

"Ye shall receive power, after that the 
Holy Ghost is come upon you; and ye shall 
be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and 
in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the 
uttermost parts of the earth." Acts 1 : 8. 

The anointing power is of God and is 
given only as man's natures are made pure 
by the blood of His Son, and it will be used 
to His honor and glory. When justified by 
God the spirit of man is a receptacle for di- 
vine power, which should be secured at 
once. When sanctified the soul is ready to 
receive the anointing power, and when 



62 LOVE ON FIRE. 

purified the body is ripe for it. The anoint- 
ing power enables us to enjoy and use the 
gifts and graces received from God to his 
honor and glory. 

Every man, woman and child should be 
cleansed from all sin and filled with God's 
love and power. When thus saved and 
filled ye are holy. a Ye shall be holy; for I 
the Lord your God am holy. Therefore, fol- 
low peace with all men and holiness, without 
which no man shall see the Lord." Lev. 19: 
2; Heb. 12: 14. 

The triune man, when wholly the Lord's, 
is cleansed from all sin and filled with di- 
vine love and power. The spirit is holy 
when man is born into the kingdom of God; 
the soul, when freed from the effects of sin 
and sealed up with Christ in God; and the 
body when purified by the blood of the 
Lamb. Thus the triune natures of man are 
made partakers of the divine nature and 
have access to unlimited power in Christ 
Jesus, who has all power for good in heaven 
and earth. Hallelujah! 

To receive the anointing power in your 
soul and body the very God of peace must 
sanctify you wholly. 

The word sanctification, including its de- 



THE ANOINTING POWER. 63 

rivatives, occurs in the Bible more than one 
hundred times. Few words expressive of 
Christian experience occur as often. This 
doctrine is taught to a greater or less extent 
by all the leading denominations of this 
country; and for so doing we have a thus 
saith the Lord: "This is the will of God, 
even your sanctification." i Thes. 4: 3. 

It is a holy state, including spirit, soul 
and body. 1 Thes. 5: 23. This was Adam's 
normal state prior to his fall. Can not this 
blessed state be secured now by all his pos- 
terity? We know of no reason why every 
part of man's trinity should not be holy and 
live to glorify God. All those who are fully 
sanctified walk, talk and live in harmony 
with the blessed Savior in all things. They 
do not become offended at the truth, neither 
are they moved about by every wind of doc- 
trine, but are rooted and grounded in the 
faith of the Son of God. Perfect sanctifi- 
cation is separation from all evil, and the 
setting apart of spirit, soul and body to the 
service of the Master. It is a rending of, 
and passing through the veil, or religious 
dogmas of men — an entering in through the 
door (Christ) into the will of God — a set- 
tling down and sealing of the entire man to 
God. 



64 LOVE ON FIRE. 

Sanctification emar\ates from Jesus Christ, 
(1 Cor. 1: 30.) and is carried on by the Holy 
Ghost. Rom. 5: 16. God give us a sanc- 
tification that will make us one according to 
the Savior's intercessory prayer. This will 
reach all the affairs of government and each 
individual of the same. Christ desires per- 
fect oneness among His people that the 
world may believe that the Father hath sent 
Him. John 17: 20, 21. The great truths of 
the Holy Scriptures should be repeated over 
and over, until they are riveted on the minds 
and hearts of the children of men — all men. 

The spirit of a good man craves those 
things its nature demands; but the spirit of 
a wicked man craves the things that will 
eternally ruin it; "For, to be carnally minded 
is death; but to be spiritually minded is life 
and peace. Because, the carnal mind is en- 
mity against God; for it is not subject to the 
law of God, neither indeed can be." Rom. 
8: 6, 7. 

No one can be in a justified state and still 
possess the carnal mind; but he may be in 
that state and still have the carnal nature, 
or effects of sin on soul and body. The car- 
nal mind, which is the heart of the spirit, 
or king of the body of sin and death within 



THE ANOINTING POWER. 65 

us, is Satan himself, and must be removed 
to make room for the conception and birth 
of the Son of God within us. 

There is a vast difference between the 
carnal mind and the carnal nature, or effects 
of sin on soul and body. The former in- 
cludes the exercise of the will, while the 
latter does not. Satan, as king of the spirit 
of the unsaved, dwelling in the will, or king 
of the soul, often induces the will to gratify 
the spirit's nature and thus causes the indi- 
vidual to sin against God. Justification 
frees the will from this enemy, the image of 
Satan in the spirit; pardons the guilt, and 
arrays the soul's king (the will) against the 
carnal nature, which inclines to evil, but 
cannot produce an act, for which one is re- 
sponsible, only by the consent of the will. 
Paul did not say to the "babes in Christ," at 
Corinth, "Ye are carnally minded" (for to 
be carnally minded is death), but he did say: 
" I speak not unto you as unto spiritual, but 
as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ." 
1 Cor. 3: 1. 



66 LOVE ON FIRE. 



CHAPTER XV. 



HOLINESS. 

God has a holy people. They are the 
Redeemed of the Lord; have been washed 
in the blood of the Lamb, and shall not be for- 
saken, nor their land desolated; but they shall 
be called Hephzi-bah, and their land Beulah. 
For the Lord delighteth in them, and their 
land shall be married. For as a young man 
marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry 
thee, and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over 
the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. 
Even the Gentiles — the children of this 
world — shall see their righteousness, and all 
kings their glory; and they shall call them 
by a new name, which the mouth of the 
Lord shall name — "The holy people" — 
while they eat and praise the Lord in the 
courts of His holiness. These holy ones 
shall be a "crown of glory" in the hand of 
the Lord and a royal diadem in the hand of 
their God. Therefore, go through the gates ; 
prepare ye the way of the people; cast up 



HOLINESS. 67 

the highway; gather out the stones; lift up 
a standard for the people; say ye to the 
daughter of Zion, ''Behold thy salvation 
cometh!" 

Son of man, go speak to the children of 
thy people, and say unto them, '"Behold the 
Lord has called you to be holy as He is 
holy; therefore, He hath set watchmen upon 
thy walls, O Jerusalem, w T hich shall never 
hold their peace day nor night, till thou 
come into the courts of His holiness and 
art a praise in the whole earth." 

Thank God for "The Holy City," which 
John saw "coming down from God out of 
heaven," "that great city, the holy Jerusa- 
lem, descending from God out of heaven;" 
and for the "great voice out of heaven say- 
ing, 'Behold the tabernacle of God is with 
men, and He will dwell with them, and 
they shall be His people, and God Himself 
shall be with them and be their God. And 
God shall wipe away all tears from their 
eyes, and there shall be no more death, 
neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall 
there be any more pain; for the former 
things have passed away. And the nations 
of them which are saved shall walk in the 
light of it, and the kings of the earth do 
bring their glory and honor into it.' " 



68 LOVE ON FIRE. 

Glory to God for a holiness which admits 
us within heaven's jasper w r alls, golden 
streets and gates of pearl. Yes, holiness is 
the password, and it alone shall admit us. 
for though u the gates of it shall not be shut 
at all," "there shall in no wise enter into it 
anything that defileth; neither whatsoever 
worketh abomination, or maketh a lie; but 
they which are written in the Lamb's Book 
of Life." 

O, will not holiness be popular then? 
Think of it! a great city filled with an innum- 
erable multitude which no man can number, 
all worshiping God in the beauty of holi- 
ness. Not an opposer or unholy one there. 
Where, O, where, then, will these opposers 
of holiness ("without which no man shall 
see the Lord") be in that day when Christ 
comes to make up his jewels? Alas, will 
they not, with the rich man, lift up their 
eyes, being in torment — in the flames of 
hell — and cry for these holy ones whom 
they once despised, called hard names, and 
persecuted, to bring them a little water to 
cool their parched tongues? 



PRESERVATION. 69 



CHAPTER XVI. 



PRESERVATION. 

"The very God of peace sanctify you 
wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit, 
and soul, and body be preserved blameless 
unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
Faithful is He that calleth you who also 
will do it." 1 Thes. 5: 23, 24. In order to 
be preserved blameless until the coming of 
our Lord Jesus Christ, the very God of 
peace must sanctify us wholly. When born 
of God, the spirit's king is Christ, who is 
holy, having sanctified Himself that we 
might be sanctified through the truth. John 
17: 19; 1 John 3: 9. The soul enters the 
kingdom of God within us through Jesus 
Christ the door, and is made holy, for noth- 
ing unholy can enter there. Likewise may 
the body be made holy by purification and 
be kept blameless until the end of our pro- 
bationary state. 

God hedges the perfect man about from 
the wrath and power of Satan, so that he* 
cannot destroy him. Job was thus pro- 
tected — the Devil could not touch him only 
as God permitted. Job. i:8-i2;Ps. 23: 



70 LOVE ON FIRE. 

1-4. Jesus said to his despondent Apostles, 
"Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe 
in God, believe also in Me. In My Fath- 
er's house are many mansions; if it were 
not so I would have told you. I go to pre- 
pare a place for you; and if I go and pre- 
pare a place for you, I will come again and re- 
ceive you unto Myself, that where I am, there 
ye may be also." John 14: 1-3. This state- 
ment is a direct promise on the part of the 
blessed Savior to protect in life, and in the 
end to bring the Apostles to the paradisical, 
blood-washed throng. 

Jesus is so faithful, and the atonement He 
made so perfect, that not a single one of all 
He has forgiven need fail to reach the beau- 
tiful land beyond the Jordan of death. 
Praise the Lord! "Know ye not that ye 
are the temple of God, and that the Spirit 
of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile 
the temple of God, him shall God destroy; 
for the temple of God is holy, which temple 
ye are." 1 Cor. 3: 16, 17. "Him that over- 
cometh will I make a pillar in the temple of 
My God, and he shall go no more out; and 
I will write upon him the name of My God, 
and the name of the city of My God, which 
is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out 



PRESERVATION. 7 1 

of heaven from My God; and I will write 
upon him My new name." Rev. 3: 12. 
God's saved ones are temples on the earth, 
and are to be pillars in His temple above. 

The wall of salvation (Isa. 26: 1; 60: 18.) 
in which the fully saved are to be preserved 
blameless unto the coming of our Lord 
Jesus Christ, is composed of three inde- 
structible walls. The inner wall is "the 
blood of Jesus Christ" which "cleanseth 
from all sin." 1 John 1 : 7. Satan can not 
pass the blood of Christ. Yea, he fears 
the blood of the divine Redeemer, for it is 
a swift witness crying from five bleeding 
wounds against him. The middle wall is 
the "word of God." Heb. 4: 12. When 
Satan tempted Jesus in the wilderness, He 
smote him each time with "the sword of 
the Spirit, which is the word of God." 
Eph. 6: 17. 

The outer wall is composed of fire. "Our 
God is a consuming fire." The Devil dreads 
the fire, knowing he is to be cast alive into 
a lake of fire burning with brimstone. Rev. 
19: 20. 

God surrounds all whom He wholly 
sanctifies with the wall of fire, the wall of 
truth, and the wall of blood; either one of 



72 LOVE ON FIRE. 

which is so strong that Satan can not pass 
through without the consent of the will of 
the soul. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



SOUL AND BODY WORK. 

The Gospel of the blessed Savior teaches 
the only true religion; and is destined to 
prevail over all other systems. As the Gos- 
pel of Christ teaches the only true religion, 
so He is the only Savior. All who reach 
heaven will get there through and by the Lord 
Jesus Christ. In His atonement the same 
provision is made for the body as for the 
soul. As faith in Christ removes the sin of 
the soul, so will faith in Him remove sick- 
ness of the body. The everlasting Gospel 
teaches that all should look to Christ, and 
to Him alone, for salvation from sin and its 
effects on both soul and body. The pro- 
vision made for the healing of the body is 
as free and complete as that provided for 
the healing of the soul. 

An eminent writer says that the provision 
made for soul and body is the same; and 
that just to the extent that the soul may be 



SOUL AND BODY WORK. 73 

cleansed and kept from sin, so may the 
body be healed and kept from sickness. 
The extent of the cure of the soul and body, 
and the keeping of them pure, depends on 
the faithfulness of the people in laying hold 
of and appropriating the means of grace 
provided. 

If, therefore, with the ample provision 
made, any are sick who are not delivered 
and preserved from sickness, the fault is 
wholly their own; and it is simply because 
they do not avail themselves of the most 
abundantly provided and freely offered grace 
of the Gospel. 

The healing of bodily diseases, through 
the prayer of faith, is a supernatural, rather 
than a miraculous gift. The Scriptures 
make a marked distinction between the gift 
of healing and that of working of miracles. 

"But the manifestation of the Spirit is 
given to every man to profit withal. 

"For to one is given by the Spirit the word 
of wisdom; to another the word of knowl- 
edge by the same Spirit; 

"To another faith by the same Spirit; to 
another the gifts of healing, by the same 
Spirit; 

"To another the working of miracles; to 



74 LOVE ON FIRE. 

another prophecy; to another discerning of 
spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; 
to another the interpretation of tongues; 

"But all these worketh that one and the 
selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man sev- 
erally as he will." i Cor. 12: 7-1 1; 28-30. 

In no case of Christ and His disciples 
healing ordinary sickness is it mentioned in 
the Gospel as a miracle. Nearly all the 
mighty works that Christ and His followers 
wrought for the human body and mind were 
classed under the head of supernatural, 
rather than miraculous healing. The rais- 
ing of the dead, curing the lame, dumb or 
blind from birth, and similar works, are 
often classed as miracles. But the healing 
of bodily diseases and sickness, strictly, is 
never classed among miracles. 

In all cases of miracles and supernatural 
healing, God's power alone insures the re- 
sult. There is a diversity of gifts conferred 
on man, but all by the same Spirit. Whether 
the cure is reached by a word, or a touch, 
by anointing with oil, or the laying on of 
hands, or the prayer of faith, it matters not; 
it is God's power that works the cure or 
produces the result. 

The Scriptures teach that the healing of 



SOUL AND BODY WORK. 75 

the sick is supernatural, and place it along- 
side of the healing of the soul, from sin. In 
the physical and spiritual realm, the healing 
of disease and sin is the direct power of the 
Holy Spirit. So that the healing of the 
sick is as binding on the believer to-day as 
is the preaching of regeneration and sancti- 
fication. 

If the term miracle, as applied to the 
healing of the sick, was discarded, and its 
treatment placed among the works of the 
Spirit for the body, the same as conversion 
and sanctiflcation is for the Spirit and soul, 
it would be placed just where God intended 
it to be. "Himself took our infirmities and 
bore our diseases." So we see that the heal- 
ing of the body of disease, and the soul of 
sin rest upon the solid foundation of the 
atonement, and from this standpoint, and 
this alone, should be taught and received until 
the end of life. Christ did not provide a 
partial, but a complete deliverance for all His 
people. The atonement was made for the 
relief of the body as well as for the soul, so 
that Christ's children may be delivered from 
"all manner of sickness and all manner of 
disease" just as completely as they can be 
"cleansed from all sin." The basis and pro- 



76 LOVE ON FIRE. 

visions are the same for the body as for the 
soul. Therefore, it is not a partial but a 
complete deliverance that is provided and 
freely offered to all His believing children. 






CHAPTER XVIII. 



SICKNESS AN ENEMY. 

God has always treated sickness as an 
enemy. Some people differ with God; 
they look on sickness as a means of grace, 
ordained by Him to promote the sanctifica- 
tion of His people. And yet they will run 
to a doctor and swallow ever so much medi- 
cine to be cured. Oh, how foolish it is to 
claim that all disease is of God, to promote 
one's salvation, and then swallow medicine 
to thwart God's plan. Away with such 
nonsense. The Scripture always speaks of 
bodily disease as an evil, coming from the 
Devil as a result of sin. It is never called a 
blessing, an ordinance of God, or means of 
grace. The Old and New Testaments alike 



SICKNESS AN ENEMY. 77 

teach that all sorts of disease are of the 
Devil. 

It is true that disease and sickness are 
sometimes set forth in the Scriptures as a 
judicial infliction, and as a chastisement or 
rebuke, and as a reminder of our departure 
from God. So is sin used to alarm and 
bring people to Christ. Yet no one will say 
that wickedness is ordained as a means of 
grace. This would make Satan our Savior 
instead of Christ. It is the Devil's theology 
repeated that we must sin a little daily to 
keep ourselves humble and in constant need 
of a Savior. 

All sickness is of Satan, and never of 
God. It is true that God always tries to 
overrule it, as He does all sin, for our good. 
God chastises His children for their wrong 
doings as a true parent does his disobedient 
children. Yet no one will claim that the 
parent made the child do the deed for which 
he was chastised, or that any good parent 
will chastise his obedient children. 

The fact of the case is, that God is love 
and never wilfully punishes any one. He 
has created man, and for his protection, be- 
come his governor, which includes both law 
and a penalty for its violation. The Devil, 



78 LOVE ON FIRE. 

God's enemy, hates whatever God loves, 
and through revenge is ever seeking to get 
man to violate God's laws. Therefore the 
Devil, and not God, is the author of all 
sickness, sorrow, pain and death, as these 
are but the natural results of a broken law. 

The Devil knows that God's laws are 
just, and that the penalty for their violation 
must be inflicted or all law would be at an 
end and God's government would totter 
and fall. So he, by every strategy known 
to his vocabulary of tricks, is ever seeking 
to lead man to violate God's law. Satan 
has two objects in thus leading man. The 
smaller is, man's affliction and, if possible, 
his destruction. The greater is, to get God, 
if possible, through His intense love toward 
man, to cease executing justice and thereby 
overthrow His government. This trick the 
cunning fox tried on God through Adam, 
and again through Christ in the wilderness. 

God has made certain just and good laws 
to rule and protect His children on earth, 
The Devil often gets them to violate these 
laws. The righteous Judge sees that these 
laws are executed. Man suffers the penalty. 
The Devil triumphs. God is defeated. Who 
is to blame, the Judge, the criminal, or 



SICKNESS AN ENEMY. 79 

the instigator of the crime committed? In 
a moment one man slays another. It was a 
wilful murder. Twelve honest men, before 
whom the murderer is tried, so declare it. 
The judge, in behalf of a violated law, pro- 
nounces the penalty. The sheriff, to carry 
out the law, hangs the murderer by the 
neck until he is dead. The law, "He that 
sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his 
blood be shed," has been executed. Two 
citizens of our commonwealth have been 
ushered into eternity, and to whom are we 
to look for redress? Not to the murderer, 
for he is gone; not to the judge, jurors or 
hangman, for they did their duty in the mat- 
ter. Who, then, is responsible for these two 
lives? 

" 'Our Father, which art in heaven,' is it 
you?" u No, no, my child! I, through love 
to them, gave my Son's life to save them." 

"Dear Savior, is it you?" "No; I taught 
them to love one another, and finally died 
for them that they might inherit eternal life, 
and you know no murderer hath eternal 
life." 

"Was it you, loved Holy Spirit?" "Oh, 
no; I am the Comforter, sent into the world 
by the Father and Son, on the one mission 
of saving and not destroying men." 



8o LOVE ON FIRE. 

"Devil, was it you?" "Ha-ha! Me! Why, 
I feel like eating you up!" 

"Murderer, speak from thy home of un- 
quenchable fire, and tell us what led thee to 
this rash act of thine?" "Ah, 'twas Satan, 
the prince of liars! I listened to him, and 
am here! He is responsible for the loss of 
the two lives. I was only his obedient tool 
in the awful tragedy. He is the author of 
all sickness, sorrow, pain and death ! Destroy 
him, and you forever stop it all." 

All sickness, sorrow, pain, death and hell 
are from the same source. The author of 
one is the author of all. They are all fruits 
of sin. If you make God the author of any 
one, you must make Him the author of all. 
If the author of all, then there is no personal 
Devil, nor hell, and evil is only good mis- 
placed. 

The Devil wants to be worshiped. He 
offered Christ the whole world if He would 
worship him. One of his strategies to get 
worshipers is to get people to ascribe his 
works to God, and in worshiping the au- 
thor of these acts of his he is worshiped. 
Thus, Job unwittingly worshiped the Devil 
by blessing the author of his sickness, and 
thus every one is worshiping him who 



SICKNESS AN ENEMY. bl 

ascribes sickness, sorrow, pain or death to 
God, when they are all of the Devil. 

If the Devil gets us to recognize sickness 
or any of its results as of God, he drives a 
wedge between us and Christ; for if we 
ascribe to God the sending of these as so 
many remedial agencies, then Christ is not 
the only eource of salvation, but the author 
of these becomes a part of it, and as Satan 
is the author, he becomes our savior in pro- 
portion as we recognize his saving virtues 
in his afflictions. And, be assured, Satan 
will claim his own at the judgment day, if 
not before. For the moment you admit 
anything outside of Christ as a remedial 
agent, you detract so much from Him who 
bore our sins and sicknesses on the tree. The 
Devil wants us to recognize some merit out- 
side of Christ, so that He is not received as 
our complete salvation. Anything that 
claims merit for our salvation outside of 
Christ is of the Devil. All disease is of the 
Devil; it is the result of sin. If Satan can 
get you to say, as he did Job, that the Lord 
has done what he himself is doing, he has 
you as he got possession of Job, and oh, how 
he^did torment the poor man! The Devil 
wants us to think that all disease comes 



S2 LOVE ON FIRE. 

from God. so that we may worship him as 
its author instead of applying to God for its 
removal. Do not let the Devil, dear reader, 
deceive you any longer, but when sick ascribe 
it to him and go at once to God and get a cure. 



CHAPTER XIX. 



CAUSE AND CURE OF SICKNESS. 

"The prayer of faith shall save the sick." 
James 5:15. Are there any sick? Let us 
see. This world has 1,300,000,000 souls. 
Of these, one dies each second, and, on an 
average, the whole of the w r orld's inhabitants 
every thirty-three years. Go from house to 
house the wide world over, and we meet 
sickness on every hand. Why is this? Did 
God create man to suffer and die? Haste 
to His Word and see: "So God created 
man in His own image; in the image of 
God created He him; male and female cre- 
ated He them." Gen. 1: 27. Was God 
ever sick? No. Did He ever die? No, 



SICKNESS AN ENEMY. 83 

no. Then neither was man created to 
sicken or die, and had he never sinned he 
never would have experienced sickness, 
sorrow, pain nor death. 

The cause of sickness is sin. No sin, no 
sickness. This was Adam's experience be- 
fore sin entered the world, and will be the 
experience of all when sin is banished from 
it as it is from heaven. Sickness is not al- 
ways the fault of the afflicted. It may be 
inhaled, absorbed, swallowed in food cr 
drink, or inherited. 

Sin is a violation of God's law; sickness 
is one of its results. God does not make 
laws for man that he, by His aid, can not 
keep; nor does He cause him to break them 
for the sake of punishing him. Hence, all 
law-breaking and its results are from an 
enemy. God is not the author of sin; there- 
fore sin and its results are of the Devil. 
Sickness is the result of sin; therefore sick- 
ness is of the Devil, and never of God. 
The cure for sickness is the same as the 
cure for sin. "They brought unto Jesus 
many that were possessed with devils, and 
He cast out the spirits with His word, and 
healed all that were sick, that it might be 
fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the 



84 LOVE ON FIRE. 

prophet, saying, 'Himself took our infirmi- 
ties and bore our sicknesses.' " Matt. 8: 16, 
17. Inasmuch as Christ took our infirmities 
and bore our sicknesses, we do not need to 
bear them, because He is our burden-bearer. 
Jesus can heal the diseases of the body just 
as easily as He can forgive the sins of the 
soul. Mark 2: 9. The atonement of the 
Savior was for bodily infirmities as well as 
for the sins of the soul. Therefore I preach 
healing for both soul and body — this is the 
way Jesus did. He never forgave the sins 
of a sick, or blind, or lame man without 
curing his body also. He always treated 
disease as an enemy. He commanded His 
Apostles "to preach the kingdom of God 
and to heal the sick." Luke 9: 2. In the 
last great commission Jesus said to His 
Apostles: "And these signs shall follow 
them that believe. In My name shall they 
cast out devils." He also said, "They shall 
lay hands on the sick, and they shall re- 
cover." Mark 16: 17, 18. There is no 
statement in the Bible that this commission 
has been revoked or in any degree changed. 
Until a change is made by divine authority, 
we are duty bound to teach just what Christ 
taught concerning this matter. 



SICKNESS AN ENEMY. 05 

Jesus has, by the shedding of His precious 
blood, purchased many gifts for His people, 
and one of them is that of healing bodily 
infirmities. It stands on the promises as 
does that of pardon, or cleansing. They 
are all based on the death of Jesus. 

Pardon, cleansing and healing are bless- 
ings promised by a multitude of passages of 
Scripture. These are among the positive 
gifts for all who have faith to believe 
and ask for them. The only hinderance to 
conversion, sanctification or bodily healing 
is unbelief. 

Sin is opposed to righteousness; therefore 
no one need expect God to heal the sinner. 
This would be to add strength to the enemy. 
To be healed, we must first seek the king- 
dom of God and His righteousness. None 
but true Christians can offer the prayer of 
faith; therefore, if you desire to be healed, 
you must come in the way of the divine ap- 
pointment by the prayer of faith, anointing 
with oil or the laying on of hands. 

The question has been asked, "Can God 
replace missing limbs?" To this we would 
answer, Yes, if He desires to do so. How- 
ever, such an act would be one of creation 
rather than redemption. The atonement 



86 LOVE ON FIRE. 

was made to redeem that which had al- 
ready been created, and forfeited through 
the fall. Therefore the replacing of missing 
limbs is not a matter of faith -healing, but of 
creation. Faith-healing is not miraculous, 
but supernatural. It is restoring wasted or 
afflicted parts of the body. 

We understand a miracle to be something 
outside of and beyond the usual course of 
nature, or grace; while faith-healing, or the 
healing of the sick in answer to the prayer 
of faith, is, or should be, a common occur- 
rence; for it is in direct harmony with God r s 
law of grace. 



CHAPTER XX. 



AFFLICTION AND SICKNESS. 

I am sick. O, these aching pains! How 
long, O Lord, must I suffer? Is it for Thy 
glory that I am called to suffer, or is my 
pain the result of having violated some of 
Thy laws? Is it Thy will that I should thus 



AFFLICTION AND SICKNESS. 87 

suffer? I have searched Thy Word and no- 
where can I find where Thou hast laid afflic- 
tion on Thy obedient children. On the 
other hand, I find that affliction and sick- 
ness are often sent on those who are diso- 
bedient to Thy will. Are parents re- 
sponsible for the wickedness of a wayward 
son? Certainly not, if they did all they 
could to bring him up in the fear and 
admonition of the Lord. Has not God done 
all He could to save men? Yes. Then 
He is not in any way responsible for the 
diseases and suffering of mankind; for they 
are the result of violating God's laws. Dis- 
ease, like carnality, may be hereditary, and 
yet cause the individual to suffer as severely 
as though he or she had wilfully violated a 
known law. 

O, how important that we should walk 
with God, as did Enoch, and learn how to 
care for our bodies and souls, so that when 
our stay here on earth has ended our spirits 
may be safely gathered home to God, with 
the blest assurance that in the resurrection 
day our bodies shall be fashioned like unto 
the glorious body of our Lord and Savior 
Jesus Christ. 

There is a marked difference between 



SS LOVE ON FIRE. 

affliction and sickness. James says: "Is 
any among you afflicted? Let him pray. 
Is any sick? Let him call for the elders of 
the church," etc. Afflictions are of various 
kinds. An eighty -year-old saint recently 
testified: "I am well, but afflicted. God 
has healed my body of all disease, but I feel 
the infirmities of old age fast creeping on. 
Oh, for the resurrected body!" Yes, the 
resurrected body will always be young and 
free from infirmities. 

In 2 Tim. i : 8, Paul speaks of the afflic- 
tions of the Gospel. He suffered much 
through preaching the word of God. All 
the Apostles (but one) lost their lives by 
opposers of the Gospel. If we were as 
bold as they w T ere, some of us might be 
added to the long list of Christian martyrs. 
Paul was writing, as God's prisoner, to Tim- 
othy, not to be ashamed of the Gospel, the 
preaching of which had, through wicked 
men, brought him to prison, but to be the 
more zealous for God, if it cost him bonds, 
or even death. 

God knows no compromise with sin, nor 
should any of His subjects. He who lives 
godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecu- 
tion. Therefore, my brethren, count it all 



THE GREAT PHYSICIAN. 89 

joy when ye fall into divers afflictions for 
Christ's sake, knowing that if they have 
clone these things to the green tree (Christ), 
it is liable to happen any time to the dry, 
(yourselves). 



CHAPTER XXI. 



THE GREAT PHYSICIAN. 

When Jairus' daughter took sick he went 
out in the city of Capernaum to beseech the 
Savior to come and heal her. While on his 
way he was overtaken by one of his ser- 
vants, who informed him that his daughter 
was dead, and suggested that he should not 
trouble the Master, because it was too late 
for Him to render her any assistance. This 
messenger had about as little faith in the 
ability of Jesus to heal as many Christian 
people of the present day. As soon as Jesus 
heard that Jairus' daughter was dead He 
turned to him and tenderly said: " Be not 
afraid, only believe." Mark 5: 35. How 
simple the terms of healing for both soul 



90 LOVE ON FIRE. 

and body; "only believe, only believe," 
that is all — how simple. 

When the Centurion met Jesus he said: 
" My servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, 
grievously tormented; but speak the word 
only and my servant shall be healed" Matt. 
8: 6, 8. These words are so full of faith 
that they are worthy to be printed in gold. 
The Master said He had u not found so great 
faith; no, not in Israel." 

As a tender father flees to the assistance 
of his children when afflicted in body or 
mind, so also does Jesus flee to the assist- 
ance of all who are afflicted, and never fails 
to give the needed relief when He is called 
on in faith. 

The great Physician now is near, 

The sympathizing- Jesus, 
He speaks the drooping heart to cheer, 

Oh, hear the voice of Jesus. 

CHORUS. 

Sweetest note in seraph song, 

Sweetest name on mortal tongue, 

Sweetest carol ever sung, 
Jesus, blessed Jesus. 

The reason why some who are healed 
soon relapse apparently into the same sick- 
ness, is the same which causes so many, 
whose conversion is undoubted, to soon be- 
come cool in love, weak in faith, or lapse 
into open sin. 



THE GREAT PHYSICIAN. 91 

Our bodily diseases, as well as our spirit- 
ual maladies, are atoned for by Christ. The 
healed body is as liable to relapse as is the 
converted soul. According to your faith, so 
it shall be. If faith in the bodily cure be- 
come weak, either after or during the prog- 
ress of recovery, a relapse into sickness 
would be most natural. "The just shall 
live by faith." 

When looking to God for bodily healing, 
all other agencies should be abandoned. 
The same common sense should be exer- 
cised as when under a physician. No good 
physician will take a case unless the patient 
agrees to follow his directions and take his 
remedies. 

A failure to take a physician's prescription 
will not only prevent a cure, but will dis- 
honor him, and prevent others from going 
to him to be healed. So it is with Christ; 
if we do not take the prescription He gives, 
and as directed, we dishonor Him, prevent 
a cure and discourage others from coming 
to be healed. If you take medicine while 
trusting the Lord for a cure, and recover, 
to whom are you going to give the credit, 
God, the druggist, or the physician? You 
see at once the inconsistency of the whole 



92 LOVE ON FIRE. 

matter. " Ye can not serve two masters.*' 
No true Christian should charge God with 
afflicting him. When God does afflict it is 
useless to run to an earthly physician to be 
cured. 

If we do not believe that Jesus will heal 
our bodies, as well as our souls, do we not 
dishonor Him and His word, and in so doing 
commit a sin. When the Apostles failed to 
cast the Devil out of the lunatic child, Jesus 
rebuked them because of their lack of faith 
in Him. Matt. 17: 19-21. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



OUR DUTY IN CASE OF SICKNESS. 

''Good morning, Doctor Calomel." • 
"Ah, quite well, I thank you." 
"My cold is getting worse, Doctor." 
"Very sickly times, I assure you." 
"O, dear, I hadn't heard of it!" 
••The people are dying everywhere." 
u Ain't you successful in your practice?" 
"Very; I made $20,000 last year." 
"Indeed ! But have you lost any patients ?" 



OUR DUTY IN CASE OF SICKNESS. 93 

"Only those who have died, and, of course, 
they could be of no use to me any longer." 
"Then you doctor to make money?" 
"True; and so does all our craft." 
"Doctor, what do you do with a rich pa- 
tient?" 

"Keep him sick as long as practicable." 
"If the patient is poor, what?" 
"Then I let him get well, or kill him off, 
as deemed expedient." 

"Why do you keep the rich sick?" 
"The longer the sickness the larger the fee." 
"You never continue the sickness too 
long?" 

"Yes; but the estate pays my bill, all the 
same." 

"But do not you lose by his death?" 
"It is all considered in his bill." 
"Why do you kill off the poor?" 
"To save time to devote to the rich." 
"Why not get them off your hands by 
curing them?" 

"None but God can cure diseases." 
"Then why do you practice medicine?" 
"For the same purpose that you farm or 
sell goods." 

"Ah, I see; you make people sick that you 
may live." 



94 LOVE ON FIRE. 

"Yes; others sick, if not sick, that I may 
live." 

"Well, Doctor Calomel, what is my bill?" 

"O, wait till you are well, and we'll see." 

"But you say none but God can cure 
sickness." 

"True. Yet He has created remedial 
agencies." 

"Yes; but He who put healing virtue in 
the plant can bestow it direct." 

"Very well; but the unbeliever will trust 
us when he won't God." 

Are you a Christian? If so, the inspired 
Word tells, exactly what you ought to do in 
-case of sickness, when those having the 
gifts of healing cannot be secured, i Cor. 
12: 9. "Let him call for the elders of the 
church." Jas. 5: 14. The Word does not 
give the sick believer the choice of calling 
in a physician, patronizing a druggist or 
calling for elders to anoint him, but in com- 
manding words, "Let him call for the elders 
of the church." Therefore, if any of God's 
children are sick, it is their duty, when no 
one possessing the gifts of healing is avail- 
able, to call for the "elders." 

The elders here required are God-made, 
and differ greatly from those who are only 



OUR DUTY IN CASE OF SICKNESS. 95 

made such by man. They are men or 
women endued with the prayer of faith for 
the restoration of the sick. They are such 
persons as are matured in the doctrine of 
healing and practice it effectually. 

"Let them pray over him, anointing him 
with oil," is the elders duty. The oil used 
in primitive times was olive oil, and may be 
found in almost any drug store. There is 
no healing virtue in the oil or in the hands 
laid on, only as God operates through them. 
In case only one elder can be had, God 
honors his prayer of faith as much as w r hen 
more are present. Experience teaches that 
it is better to be alone while offering the 
prayer of faith than to have unbelievers 
present. Matt. 9: 25; 2 Kings 4: 33. 

A believer should be anointed each time 
he gets sick, unless his faith immediately 
grasps successfully the promise of healing 
without it. No believer need be anointed 
twice for the same disease unless his faith 
fails before the cure is effected, and he after- 
ward concludes to try again. If there are 
any symptoms of the disease after the anoint- 
ing, the prayer of faith or laying on of hands 
might be repeated daily until they disappear. 
God never wants a physician to be called 



96 LOVE ON FIRE. 

and our systems drugged with poisons. He 
proposes to be our physician, and does not 
want any rival in the work. If you can not 
trust the Lord, then you may go to the phy- 
sician and take your chances, which is better 
than nothing. 

The Bible speaks of physicians only four 
times: First, of Joseph getting one to em- 
balm his dead father (Gen. 50: 2.); second, 
King Asa trusting them instead of God, and 
dying (2 Chron. 16: 12.); third, Job declar- 
ing, u Ye are all physicians of no value" (Job 
13: 4.), and fourth, of suffering many 
things of physicians (Mark 5: 26, and Luke 
8: 43.). Concerning physician see Jeremiah 
8: 22, Matthew 9: 12, Mark 2: 17, Luke 
4: 23; 5: 31, Col. 4: 14. Now, in all these 
you see no command or recommendation to 
earthly physicians, but rather a leading 
away from them to the decisive healer, 
Jesus. Luke may have practiced medicine 
before his conversion, but there is no ac- 
count, or even hint, of his doing it after- 
ward. Of medicine the Bible speaks only 
once (Prov. 17: 22.), which merely shows 
there is virtue in it when properly used, 
which is for sinners who will not turn to and 
trust God. 



OUR DUTY IN CASE OF SICKNESS. 97 
DIED OF STARVATION. 

"Poor Jones," said a quaint writer, "died 
of starvation, although worth $50,000. I'll 
tell you how it was. Jones was always 
fancying that there was something the mat- 
ter with him; so he went to a physician one 
day and had himself examined, and the 
physician told him he had the kidney dis- 
ease, and that, besides taking medicine, he 
must diet himself. Said the physician : 
'You must avoid all kinds of salt meats, salt 
fish, potatoes, cabbage and vegetables of 
every kind.' Jones followed the advice, 
but found himself no better. He went to 
another physician, and after being examined, 
was informed that he must avoid all kinds 
of fresh meats also. This did not do him 
any good, as he thought, and he went to 
another physician, who highly approved of 
the advice which had previously been given, 
and further warned him against all kinds of 
pastry, likewise shell-fish, including oysters 
and clams. 4 The best thing for you is a 
milk diet,' said this physician; so Jones 
lived wholly upon milk. Not feeling him- 
self any better, he went to another physi- 
cian, who cautioned him to avoid milk above 



9S LOVE ON FIRE. 

all things, if he wanted to get well. This 
reduced Jones to a diet of cold water and 
fresh air, and, finding himself no better under 
this regime, he went to another physician, 
who advised him to beware of drinking too 
much water and being too much in the air. 
This last advice cut off the last of Jones' 
articles of diet, and he died of starvation, as 
I told you." 

Why did not Mr. Jones do like the 
woman who ''suffered many things of many 
physicians," turn to the Great Physician, 
who never fails to cure, and that too, without 
money and without price. 

The believer's commission concerning 
healing of the sick embraces the following 
duties, viz.: Praying in faith for the afflicted 
(James 5: 14.), anointing them with oil 
(James 5: 14.), and the laying on of hands- 
(Mark 16: 18.). The promise is that they 
shall be healed and their sins forgiven them. 
When Jesus healed Peter's mother-in-law, 
He laid His hand on her (Matt- 8: 15.); 
when He healed the sick people at Nazareth, 
He laid His hands on them (Mark 6: 5.);. 
when he healed the deaf and stuttering man, 
He put His fingers in his ears, spit and 
touched his tongue (Mark 8: 32, 33.); and 



OUR DUTY IN CASE OF SICKNESS. 99 

when He opened the eyes of the man who 
was born blind He touched his eyes by 
anointing them (John 9: 6.). God's glory 
demands that His children should conform 
to His methods of curing their bodily in- 
firmities as well as their spiritual diseases. 
If disease is brought about by violating the 
laws of nature, said violation must cease be- 
fore God will heal the afflicted. This is true 
concerning both soul and body. In either 
case there is no promise of help from God 
until the transgressor turns from the evil of 
his way. When recovering from sickness 
by the power of God, the individual should 
be as careful to observe the natural laws 
as if the convalescence was brought about 
by medicinal aid. 

, Have all earthly physicians failed you? 
Do not be discouraged, but look up to the 
Great Physician whose skill has never been 
baffled. His knowledge, skill and power to 
heal are exhaustless. 

It has been reported that President Gar- 
field was fed on morphine and whisky, and 
all ministers excluded, while the Christian 
world was called on to pray for his recov- 
ery. If this be true, how could we expect 
God to heal the dear man? In this the 



IOO LOVE ON FIRE. 

children of Satan point to his death as a 
test case concerning the power of prayer 
and say, "It is a failure." God is not re- 
sponsible for the death of James A. Gar- 
field, because his case was not submitted to 
Him as the Scripture requires. A physician 
can not be made responsible for the recovery 
of an individual until the case is fully re- 
signed into his hands and his directions fol- 
lowed. 

In seeking for bodily healing the afflicted 
should discard all medicinal agencies and 
submit the ailment wholly into the hands 
of God. 

On returning home from a day's toil the 
author was met by his wife at the door, and 
exclaimed: "Oh, I am so glad you have 
come. Mary is very sick; she came near 
dying a little while ago with an awful spasm, 
the same as Johnny had when he died. 
What shall we do?" "Dear wife," I ex- 
claimed, "we must not distrust Jesus, let 
happen what will. We trusted two of our 
children to the physicians, and they both 
died. Now we will trust little Mary to Jesus, 
and she shall live." Accordingly, we both 
knelt before the Lord and offered the prayer 
of faith for her speedy recovery. Our faith 



RESPONSIBILITY. IOI 

was tested. Satan endeavored to bring on 
another spasm. Again we wrestled with 
God. This time faith triumphed. Jesus 
turned back the powder of Satan, rebuked 
the disease, and it vanished. God triumphed. 
The Great Physician wrought the cure, and 
to God be all the praise, now and forever. 
Amen. 

[The author has received "the gifts of healing," (i Cor. 
12: 9; Matt. 10: 5-8; Luke 10: 1, 9, 17, 19.), and has laid hands 
on hundreds of people who, by so doing, were healed of "ail 
manner of sickness and all manner of disease 1 ' by "the 
power of the Lord." Matt. 6: 23; Luke 5: 17. A great many 
people have been healed by sending him their handker- 
chiefs. Acts 19: 11, 12. Should you desire his help in salva- 
tion meetings on this line write to him at 334 North Califor- 
nia street. Indianapolis, Ind.] 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



RESPONSIBILITY. 

Man is responsible for his own sins and 
sickness to the full extent of his ability to 
have avoided them. He is responsible if 
he fails to apply for the remedy provided 
in the atonement of Jesus Christ. He is 
also responsible for transmitted sins, and 



102 LOVE ON FIRE. 

transmitted sickness to the full extent of 
his ability to have avoided them. 

While man is responsible for his inher- 
ited and transmitted sin and sickness, only 
so far as he might have known and ap- 
plied the preventive and cure, nevertheless 
each violation of God's spiritual and phys- 
ical laws demands a penalty whether done 
wilfully or through ignorance. Hence the 
suffering of soul and body on account of a 
broken law, known or not known, and the 
need of an all-powerful restorer. 

Owing to ignorance, one may be holy 
and die of sickness as the result of sin. 
The sin of sickness may result from one's 
own disobedience to natural laws; or it 
may be like inbred sin, inherited. A great 
deal of sin is inherited. Thus the sins of 
the parents are visited on the children to 
the third and fourth generation. O, what 
a fearful responsibility rests upon parents, 
both as to their own health and that of their 
children! 

God holds us responsible for all the evil 
we could have prevented. In the atone- 
ment ample provision has been made for 
our release from all sin, and for preservation 
from sickness. 



RESPONSIBILITY. IO3 

All sickness is the result of sin. Remove 
it from the world and sickness will disap- 
pear. In heaven there is no sin, therefore 
no sickness. But, says one, the best of saints 
are often afflicted by disease as much as are 
sinners. You are mistaken; the best Chris- 
tians are sick but little, for they trust God 
for both health and salvation. Says another: 
"Are not Christian people often terribly 
afflicted?'' Yes, and often much more so 
than children of the Devil, for while they 
have learned to exercise saving faith for 
their souls their bodies are left for Satan to 
destroy, which he delights to do. 

If Satan can not destroy your soul, he will 
take vengeance on your body if you will let 
him. If he loses the soul he will afflict 
the body all he possibly can, both to gloat 
his hatred toward God, and to keep you 
helpless in Christ's service. Satan boasts 
of the strength, riches, power and activity 
of his followers, while he points the finger 
of derision at the poor, weak, sickly child 
of God. I tell you a child of God should 
not be sick. If sick he should go to God 
and be healed. If sick when saved, Satan 
will retain him in sickness if possible, and 
if well, will afflict him through revenge 



104 LOVE ON FIRE. 

and in order to weaken his force ia the ser- 
vice of his Master. 

By sin and sickness, Satan has succeeded 
in shortening man's average life from sev- 
enty to thirty -three years, instead of letting 
him live out his allotted time of three score 
years and ten, and then depart this life in 
peace as a result of old age. 

But you say many get sick who do not 
sin. Well you can not prove it, for all sins 
are not open to man. But in order to in- 
vestigate further we will admit that many 
get sick who do not sin, which fact proves 
nothing for you, as all are affected by sin 
in the soul from birth, and vast multitudes 
inherit disease as well. The diseases of the 
parents are inherited by the children for 
many generations. Your sickness does not 
prove that you have sinned, neither does it 
prove that it is not the result of sin. Your 
sickness as well as your depravity may be 
inherited. No one claims that depravity is 
not the result of sin, because they did not pro- 
duce it, nor have they any right to claim 
that all sickness is not the result of sin, be- 
cause the afflicted did not commit the sin 
that caused the sickness. 



WHY NOT ACCEPT HEALING NOV/? IO5 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



WHY NOT ACCEPT HEALING NOW? 

"A loving child, you say?" 
•'Yes; the most so of all my children," 
"And you love him in return?" 
"I do, as only a father can love." 
"How long has the young man been 
sick?" - 

"Three years and a half." 
"Ah! Isn't it awful?" 
"True, my brother, for his suffering is 
terrible." 

"Why don't you cure him?" 
"Oh, sir, I have tried every available rem- 
edy, but he steadily grows worse." 

"Then you would heal him if you could?" 
"Certainly; for I love him as my life, and 
'all that a man hath he will give for his 
life.' " 

"Does your boy love Jesus?" 

"It is his greatest joy to talk of Him." 

"And Jesus loves the boy?" 



I06 LOVE ON FIRE. 

"Sir, I know He does. Didn't He die for 
my child?" 

"And no doubt would like you to do all 
in your power to help him?" 

"To be sure, for His love is greater than 
mine; I never died for any one." 

"Won't Jesus, then, heal your son if you 
put him in the Great Physician's hands?" 

"Why, surely He would; for all power is 
given unto Him on earth and in heaven, 
and 1 would if I only had the power." 

"Then take him and all your sick at once 
to Jesus, and have them healed. Surely 
you are a very cruel father to have your 
son suffer so long, and a never-failing rem- 
edy ever at hand." 

"Ah! I stand rebuked, and justly, too; 
for while I have spent a fortune with earthly 
physicians, which means might have been 
used in the salvation of many souls, I have 
not trusted Jesus, the Great Physician, for a 
moment with the cure of my son. But I 
will do so no more. Here, wife, pour out 
the drugs, and let us get down before God, 
and receive Jesus as the healer of our boy. 
Thank God, He heals now — even now! 
Amen!" 

Jesus loves to heal and to save to-day. 



WHY NOT ACCEPT HEALING NOW? IO7 

Why, then, do you wait? Will you be bet- 
ter prepared to accept His blessings by 
waiting? Then how foolish and useless to 
expect to be prepared by waiting or defer- 
ring to some other time that which you 
ought to accept now. 

The Devil's time for us to claim deliver- 
ance never comes. "Wait until to-morrow; 
you are not quite ready to be saved or 
healed," is his most frequent argument. 
Thus time flies, while Satan's time never 
comes, and the poor sufferer is kept looking 
to Satan's time instead of to the world's 
Savior, for his deliverance from the effects 
of sin. Remember, suffering ones, that 
"now is the accepted time; now is the day 
of salvation." This is God's time, while the 
Devil's time never comes. 

Why so many failures? All around us 
are those who have apparently embraced 
Christ's word, and for a time run well, and 
then fall entirely away. Such cases bring 
reproach on God's cause. They embrace 
soul and body. After seeking healing of 
God and obtaining relief from suffering, 
they cease believing for a perfect cure, and 
remain feeble and incapable of active service 
all their lives. Try to arouse them, and 



IOS LOVE ON FIRE. 

they say it would be presumptuous to ask 
for more, or that they are patiently await- 
ing God's time to finish the work. 

The Devil is a liar. Beware of his angelic 
guise! His masterpiece is to keep us out of 
the fullness of our inheritance by a false 
humility, a presumptuous patience. Oh, 
how many, through ignorance of Satan's 
devices, are abiding his time instead of the 
Lord's. Cruel monster! How I loathe him. 
Thus day by day and year after year thou- 
sands of suffering ones are cruelly delayed 
from obtaining the will of God. 

Christ's work is a finished one. We are 
to be living epistles of His finished work. 
This we can never do by a half-and-half 
fulfillment of His will concerning us. We 
find no half finished work wrought by Je- 
sus during His ministrations on earth. "As 
many as touched Him were made perfectly 
whole." Then do not wait to become 
better, but at once lay all on the altar of 
consecration. Reckon yourselves dead to 
sin — all sin. Do it now! 

We have a right to claim God's promises 
as long as He permits us to live. The 
promises secured by the atonement are not 
lost to us, simply because we may have out- 



WHY NOT ACCEPT HEALING NOW? IOQ 

lived our three score and ten years. If we 
live beyond this, w T e have as good a right to 
lay our sicknesses on Jesus, who bare them 
for us, as we had before that time. There- 
fore as long as we live in the Lord, we may, 
and ought to ask Him, if sick, for healing. 
Healing does not depend on being pres- 
ent, where united prayer is offered for 
healing. The healing comes by grace 
through faith, and not as a result of being 
present with those offering the prayers of 
faith. Knowledge of the way of faith heal- 
ing may be had at faith meetings; and the 
presence of those who have faith often 
stimulates our own, so that by this help 
many are healed, who failed until they 
learned the way of trusting at faith meet- 
ings. If God so loved us, that He gave His 
Son to die for us, " will He not with Him 
also freely give us ail things." Yes, most 
assuredly. Then think not thyself of so 
little importance to the Lord that He would 
not even work a miracle, if needs be, to 
keep thee on earth a few days longer. 



IIO LOVE ON FIRE. 



CHAPTER XXV. 



HEALING FROM A DESIRE. 

In receiving healing from God, the power 
used must be greater than that used by 
Satan in putting the disease on you. We 
need have no fear on this point, because 
Jesus said: "All power is given unto Me in 
heaven and in earth." To overcome the 
Devil, we must be the strongest, which we 
can not be only as God gives us strength. 
"Ye shall receive power after the Holy 
Ghost is come upon you." Acts i : 8. As 
man yields to the will of God he becomes 
partaker of the divine nature; and as he 
partakes of this nature he comes in pos- 
session of superhuman power. 

Jesus came into this world to destroy the 
works of the Devil. Why, then, is it not 
•done? Because the salvation of man, as to 
both soul and body, depends on his faith; 
and the faith in God is wanting. God's 
power to save or heal men works only in 
proportion to their faith. Matt. 13: 58. 



HEALING FROM A DESIRE. I I I 

Therefore we do not wonder that the Apos- 
tles pi'ayed, "Lord, increase our faith." 

Jesus heals diseases- now on the very 
same terms as when He was here among' 
men, viz.: by the diseased coming to and 
having faith in Him; for, "without faith, it 
is impossible to please God," much less to 
obtain His power to heal. 

The different ways of healing set forth in 
this and the next two chapters are for the 
purpose of teaching how to obtain a faith 
stronger than Satan's power in our disease. 
When God creates w T ithin us a desire to 
be healed we should take Him at once 
as our healer. With each desire He gives 
asking- faith and knowledge as to how to 
ask. All desires that are from God are 
so many promissory notes made payable on 
sight at the throne of grace. 

If we seek healing from the desire only 
(which contains all things promised on con- 
dition that we seek until found), we should 
accept the desire as coming from God, and 
believe at once for the things desired, and 
not let go until He opens it up in answer to 
our petition. Whenever a desire for healing 
is opened by God in answer to the prayer 
of faith, whether from the desire, or in the 
witness, or by inspiration, the more power- 



112 LOVE ON FIRE. 

ful methods of divine healing, we should at 
once take healing with all the faith at com- 
mand and give God the glory. 

In obtaining healing from an open desire, 
the power of God comes out of it and enters 
the disease. The cannon ball leaps from its 
mouth and speeds on its way to execution 
in proportion to the strength of the powder 
that sends it forth. So it is in healing; the 
power of God is exerted in our behalf in 
proportion to the strength of our faith. As 
Aaron's rod (by the power of God) became 
a serpent and swallowed up the magicians' 
serpents, so the power of God, carried by a 
faith that is stronger than Satan's power, 
will swallow up disease. 

The desire (in which is God's power con- 
taining our healing) being opened by the 
dear Savior in answer to our prayer of 
faith, gives the opportunity to take the heal- 
ing at once. It was locked up in the de- 
sire so you could not get it. Now you can — 
will you take it? Say, u By the grace of 
God I will." If you thus decide, you and 
Satan will have a conflict, and you might as 
well prepare yourself for the battle. "Put 
on the whole armor of God that you may be 
able to stand against the wiles of the Devil." 
Eph. 6: ii. 



HEALING FROM A DESIRE. II3 

It requires grit, grace and great perse- 
verance to thwart and overcome the Devil. 
Therefore, we should be as determined to 
take healing as Satan is that we shall not be 
healed. Having fully determined to receive 
healing of the Lord, we should see that our 
faith has sufficient power to overcome and 
destroy Satan's works. Have strong faith 
in God and be bold against Satan, and you 
will be sure to triumph over him. Two 
armies are arrayed against each other. One 
is your disease, carried by the power of 
Satan according to his will; the other, your 
healing, carried by the power of God ac- 
cording to your faith. As the powder car- 
ries the bullet, so your faith carries the 
power of God. God deals with man as a 
free moral agent, and leaves him free to 
take healing or reject it. 

If, in the battle for healing, your faith is 
weaker than the will of Satan in the dis- 
ease, it lets God's power fall below Satan's, 
and the disease continues to rage. If the 
power of God and the power of Satan are 
equal, your healing and the disease stand 
still facing each other like two gladiators. 
But if your faith is greater than the will of 
Satan in the disease, the power of God goes 



114 LOVE ON FIRE. 

above the disease and swallows it up, while 
your healing in God's power leaps out into 
the body, giving you health. 

If faith from the desire fails to secure 
healing, then your faith should be tried for 
the taking of greater power. The trial of 
faith is the completion of it for the taking 
of power, while the development of a fin- 
ished faith is the using of it for God's 
glory. Should you fail to receive healing 
from a tried faith, you should go forth and 
take it by impulse, for "the kingdom of 
heaven sufFereth violence and the violent 
take it by force." Matt, n: 12. You 
should be determined to conquer or die, for 
if God does not destroy the disease it will 
kill you. "All that a man hath will he give 
for his life." Shout "To arms! To arms!" 
and close in on the enemy. "Be ye angry (at 
Satan) and sin not," instinctively becomes 
your motto for the moment, as you leap at 
the Devil's throat in the disease, and with 
all the power your concentrated faith com- 
mands, try to choke the very life out of him. 
Have no pity on "Old Satan," but wage a 
war of extermination on him, and if your 
faith is stronger than his power in the dis- 
ease, you will be healed and put him to 



HEALING FROM A DESIRE. 115 

flight. Never yield; if defeated once, try 
again, and continue to try until your faith is 
sufficiently developed to swallow up Satan's 
power. While there is life you should 
never yield to death's demands, for it is an 
enemy — the last one to be overcome. Enoch 
and Elijah (by the power of God) tri- 
umphed over death, without passing through 
it. God will do as much for us; but in 
reaching the zenith of our glory we may be 
called to walk through the valley and 
shadow of death — only the shadow, thank 
God! Your desire proves that God wants 
to heal you. If you have sought to be 
healed and failed, it is because your faith 
was too weak to take the necessary power 
from God to destroy the disease. There- 
fore try again. There are lengths, breadths 
heights and depths in faith and in the power 
of God, unexperienced by you. Go forth in 
the strength of the God of Israel, and let 
your motto be: u The sword of the Lord 
and of Gideon." Judges 7: 18. 



Il6 LOVE ON FIRE. 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



HEALING BY THE WORD. 

Having been convinced that Jesus heals 
bodily infirmities now as in the days when 
He was here among men, and having re- 
ceived a desire to be healed, you should 
firmly believe the desire is from God, and 
go boldly to a throne of mercy to find grace 
to help in your time of great need. Should 
you at any time doubt as to whether your 
desire or knowledge is from God, you should 
try the spirit. If of God the spirit will "con- 
fess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh," 
but if not of Him he will deny it. I John 4: 
1-4; 1 Peter 4: 1, 2. 

Those who have spiritual discrimination 
know that Satan does not always go dressed 
in his own garments; but sometimes comes 
as an angel of light, and unless tried as 
afore indicated, may deceive the very elect. 
Therefore, in whatever form he presents 
himself, you may be sure that his object is 
to deceive — never otherwise. 



HEALING BY THE WORD. II7 

When God answers, in the desire, that He 
will heal you, which He most asuredly 
will (for if He had not intended to heal 
you He never would have given you the 
desire), your faith, received with the desire, 
leaps into the promise, which, with the an- 
swer, God throws wide open, and in it is 
your healing. Bless God, when He answers 
you in the desire He not only unlocks the 
promise, which was like a sealed up chest 
full of useful tools, but gives it to you with 
all its contents as your own property. 

A desire is as worthless as an uncracked 
nut in the hands of an infant, unless some- 
one is found who is able and willing to 
open it. 

The thing desired is always inside of the 
desire, as the kernel is in the nut, and to 
get it out, you, like the child, must hand it 
over to the author, who will open it and 
give you its contents. God always has the 
keys to His desires, and if presented to 
Him will open every one of them and give 
you their contents. Then I beseech you to 
present them all to Him, as soon as received, 
that He may unlock them and give you the 
blessings they contain. 

Having entered by grace through faith 



IlS LOVE ON FIRE. 

into the promise, you must search out your 
healing among the other gifts, all of which 
God has graciously given you. Here your 
faith is no longer in the desire, but in the 
promise in which you are to seek for the 
healing until found, when you should take 
it with a grip of steel, and hold on until 
healed. 

As soon as the healing is received by the 
patient, and God says to the one with the gift 
of healing (if present) to proceed, the healer 
should in great faith and firmness say (if 
the patient is possessed of devils): ''Satan," 
or thou deaf, dumb or blind spirit (as the case 
may be), "I ccmmand thee in the name of 
Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, 
to come out of this body!" Then having 
cast out the evil spirit, let him lay hands on 
the person being healed and say, "In the 
name of Jesus of Nazareth, receive thy 
healing," or sight or whatever is needed, 
and steadfastly hold on by faith, and encour- 
age the patient to hold on by faith until the 
healing is complete; that is, until the power 
of God (in the witness taken from the de- 
sire) enters the body, driving out the power 
of Satan. Then he should touch the healed 
or lift him up (if fallen down under the 



HEALING BY THE WORD. II9 

power of God), saying, "In the name of 
the Lord Jesus, receive thy strength," or 
such other words as the Holy Spirit may 
give. 

Taking your healing is like lifting the meat 
out of the open nut and eating it. The nut 
being cracked (or desire opened), your faith 
enters into the shell (or desire), and ac- 
cording to the witness, which is knowledge 
or power received to take your healing, you 
lift the kernel, or thing desired, out of the 
shell, or desire, and apply it where needed. 
As you enter a burning house, drive out 
the one who set it on fire, and put out the 
fire, so the power in the witness, backed b} r 
your taking- faith, all of and from God, 
enters the afflicted body and drives out Sa- 
tan, the author of sickness, and destroys the 
disease. 

When your healing is received, your tak- 
ing-faith (received out of the desire) with 
the witness or word of God (which is 
knowledge or power) enters into the af- 
flicted parts, and the power works accord- 
ing to your faith in healing the diseased 
parts, the disease and enemy having been 
cast out by the power of God. As the car- 
penter w r orks in repairing a burned edifice, 



120 LOVE ON FIRE. 

so your faith backs the power of God in 
restoring the afflicted members to a normal 
condition. 

Temptations will last until every fibre of 
the afflicted parts is healed. When the dis- 
eased members of the body are fully re- 
stored, Satan leaves off the temptations, 
and not before. When the carpenter works 
to repair, the Devil rages to prevent it. 
The Devil only roars when cast out, in 
order that he may get back. Therefore, 
fear not when temptations come on your 
soul or body work, for it is a sign you are 
on the right track, and Satan wants to drive 
you from it. For if you are on the wrong 
track, or not healed or saved, he is not go- 
ing to bother you. 

From this chapter we learn that the wit- 
ness from within (given for your healing) 
is the word of God as revealed by the Holy 
Ghost; and in the witness or word is the 
power, and in the power is your healing. To 
take your healing from the word, by faith 
you take the witness, and in so doing you 
feel the power in the diseased part of the 
body, and your health comes forth out of 
the power felt in the body. 



HEALING BY INSPIRATION. 121 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



HEALING BY INSPIRATION. 

On learning that you may be healed by 
inspiration — seeing your healing in the spirit 
before "aking it into the body — and, having 
received a desire from God to thus have the 
cure performed, you should believe the de- 
sire to be from God and ask for faith to 
cover the disease, and hold on to God until 
He gives you the witness that your faith 
does cover it all in the spirit. 

In seeking healing by inspiration you be- 
lieve from the desire for faith to cover the 
disease first, instead, as in healing by the 
word, for the witness. In this you act like 
a wise man desiring to build a house, who 
in the beginning counts the cost, and se- 
cures ample means to complete it before 
commencing the work of building. The 
holding on is the trying of your faith until 
perfected, when you should commence using 
the tried faith or material, secured by your 
trial of faith for the edifice or healing in the 
spirit to be afterwards transferred from it 



I22 ; LOVE ON FIRE. 

to the body. As the wise man, on ascer- 
taining that he has ample means, purchases 
the material and then goes to work to bald 
the edifice, so you secure, by trials of yaur 
faith, a perfect faith, to believe for the wit- 
ness and sight of your healing in the spirit 
before transferred to the body. 

Having believed from the desire for faith 
you then believe in the faith for the witness 
and sight. Or, in other words, having first 
secured faith to cover the disease, yoa now 
ask (by the faith received out of the desire) 
for the witness or your healing in the spirit, 
which, when perfected, God gives you, 
and the sight or inspiration of your healing 
at the same time. Thus you see that Gcd 
answers yes, to your petition, and with His 
promise gives you the sight of your healing 
in the spirit. Now you have three wit- 
nesses to your healing in the spirit — the de- 
sire, God's word (as revealed by the Holy 
Ghost), and your sight. The evidence is 
not only triple but intensified, inasmuch 
as knowledge is stronger than belief or de- 
sire. For in a desire, or the word, you feel 
for the promise by faith, without sight. 
while in the latter you see what you are 
promised before it is taken. 



HEALING BY INSPIRATION. I 23 

It is much easier to take a thing that is 
seen, when promised, than when not seen. 
For when seen, you know it exists and ex- 
actly where to reach for it when offered 
you; while, when not seen, you have only 
the donor's word without sight or knowl- 
edge as to its form or location in the desire, 
and have to go by faith from the promise 
and feeling in it until realized. 

God always puts your healing and all 
other gifts to be taken from Him in a de- 
sire, whether taken from it direct or by His 
word or the embryo. In taking your heal- 
ing into the body from the embryo seen in 
the spirit, you use a triple faith, the ask- 
ing, taking, and overcoming-faith, which, 
combined, form a faith more than a hun- 
dred times stronger than the simple asking- 
faith, which most people are alone using to 
take God's blessings for soul and body. 

Having received the desire, word, and 
sight of your healing, which is the inspira- 
tion of the word, and may be had in all 
God's gifts to man (t. e., seen by our spir- 
itual eyes before taken into our soul or body), 
it is an easy matter to lay hold through this 
triune or triple evidence, and transfer the 
healing from the spirit to the body. 



124 LOVE ON FIRE. 

The inspiration of healing in the spirit is 
like the inventor's mechanism before made. 
He has the inspiration of the invention 
before perfected, so that others can see 
it. It is the real table or chair in the spirit 
before made visible, and the inventor sees 
it, otherwise he would not have known 
what to make. So it is in the spirit; you 
see not as a vision or some imaginary thing 
as in speculation or spiritualism, but the 
embryo of the healing produced aftewards 
in the body. 

When you see your healing in the spirit, 
you should take it w T ith the overcoming- 
faith given with the sight or embryo, and 
transfer it to the body. In transferring the 
healing seen in the spirit by the united evi- 
dences of desire, hearing and sight, backed 
by the triune asking, taking and overcoming 
faith to the body, you use the fire and ham- 
mer of the word. The chain of evidences 
is now so complete, and the combined faith 
so perfect, that you drive your healing, seen 
in the spirit by the power of God, in your 
bod}^ with such force that the healing is 
complete and instantaneous. 

In seeking your healing by inspiration 
you should remember that you believe, first. 



HEALING BY INSPIRATION. I2J 

from the desire for the faith; second, in the 
faith for the witness and sight; third, trans- 
fer the healing seen in the spirit by your 
triune faith to the body. You should further 
remember that the embryo given you for 
your healing is a finished work of healing, 
done in the spirit before being done in the 
body; and, that in the embryo is the power r 
and in the power is your healing in the 
body. And that to take your healing from 
the embryo, you by faith, take the healing 
seen in the spirit, and by so doing you feel 
the power coming out of the embryo enter 
your body like sheet lightning, and from 
the power comes forth your healing. 

If the healing is not received on these 
evidences you should, by trials of faith, per- 
fect the combined faith which gives chain - 
lightning power, and if not then taken you 
may go still further and take it on the 
impulse of the desire, word, and embryo^ 
which is like forked lightning. Acts 2: 3. 

In seeking healing you should use the 
method and degree needed to take it. In 
simple cases healing might be taken from 
the desire by simple asking-faith, or if more 
faith is needed, by a tried faith; or if still 
greater faith is needed, by an impulse on 



126 LOVE ON FIRE. 

the desire. In more difficult cases you 
should take it from the witness, tried faith 
on it, or by impulse on the word. While 
in the most difficult cases you should take 
it from the embryo, tried faith on it, or by 
impulse on the sight in the spirit. 

In summing up "the gifts of healing by 
the spirit of God," we learn there are at 
least three ways, and as many degrees to 
each way, making a total of nine gifts, or a 
trinity of trinities, by the same spirit, x Cor. 
12: 9, 10. 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



TRANCES. 

A trance is a supernatural state of body 
and mind. Dr. Doddridge defines it as. 
"Such a rapture of mind as gives the person 
who falls into it a look of astonishment, and 
renders him insensible of the external ob- 
jects around him, while in the meantime his 
imagination is agitated in an extraordinary 
manner with some striking scenes which 



TRANCES. 127 

pass before it and take up all the attention." 
Stockius describes it as, "A sacred ecstacy 
or rapture of the mind out of itself, when, 
the use of the external senses being sus- 
pended, God reveals something in a pecu- 
liar manner to prophets and apostles, who 
are then taken or transported out of them- 
selves."* 

"The same idea is intimated in the Eng- 
lish word Trance, from the Latin, transitus, 
the state of being carried out of one's self." 
— McClintock and Strong's Bib. Cyclo- 
paedia. 

The reader should bear in mind that one 
must be in a trance in order to see a vision. 
Therefore it follows that where there is a 
spiritual vision, there is also a trance, 
though it may not be so worded. 

Balaam fell, "into a trance but having his 
eyes open." Numb. 24: 4. 

Isaiah was in a trance when he had that 
vision of the Lord. Isa. 6: 1-13. 

Ezekiel was in a trance when he saw a 
great vision of the idolatry of Jerusalem. 
Ezek., chapters 8, 9, 10, 11. He was also 



*(This definition is defective in this, that the author con- 
fines trances to prophets and apostles.) 



128 LOVE ON FIRE. 

in a trance when he saw the vision of dry 
bones. Ezek. 37. 

Daniel was in a trance when he saw the 
scenes described in chapters 7, 8, 9, 10. 

Peter was in a trance when he saw "a 
certain vessel descending unto him," from 
the heavens. Act. 10: 10-12. 

Paul fell into a trance while he was pray- 
ing in Jerusalem. Acts. 22: 17, 18. He 
was also in a trance when he was u caught 
up into paradise." 2 Cor. 12: 1-5. 

John was in a trance when he saw the 
wonderful scenes described in the book of 
Revelation; all of which please read with 
care. 

God desires His children to stand up and 
honor the Holy Ghost. Many have the 
form of godliness but deny the power. 
Arise and shine in God's will. Will you 
do it? 

The Holy Ghost is a wonderful person. 
At times He is very noisy, and at all times 
when His leadings are followed, signs and 
wonders follow. Especially in these last 
days we may expect them. 

In olden times holy men of God spake as 
they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 
Peter, in defending his Master's cause on 



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the day of Pentecost, told them that the 
signs and wonders seen were for them and 
their children, which reaches down to us 
and now. There are few such men as 
Peter in these days. 

Many run from God. They are afraid 
when the Holy Ghost comes as He 
often does in meetings. Some of these 
have no doubt crossed the death-line 
and are damned. Let us honor the Holy 
Ghost. Are you going down to hell? 
Stop! He who honors the Holy Ghost 
honors God and has life. 

Jesus pronounced a fearful doom on 
favored Capernaum. O, ye ministers of 
God, preach the pure and whole Gospel. 
Jesus did, and was crucified. So it may be 
with you. Paul preached the truth. He 
didn't get up a school-boy's essay and read 
it oft' as many D. D.'s are doing to-day. 

Paul had to be knocked down before be 
could see the turpitude of his sin. After- 
wards he had many visions or trances. 
Pray more and you will see more of them. 
O, ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in 
heart and ears, be careful lest ye fight 
against God. 

Paul was a wonderful man. At one time 



130 LOVE ON FIRE. 

he was caught up to the third heaven. O, 
the vision he then had! It was so grand 
thst he forgot whether he was in or out of 
the body. 

A trance is simply to be overpowered by 
the power of God. The overcoming power 
is of the Holy Ghost. Man's power is 
swallowed up by the power of God. All 
the displays of the Holy Ghost, whether in 
shouts, prayer or trances, are of God. 

John was carried away by the Spirit in 
many trances or visions, in which he saw 
Jesus, heaven, the angels, and the blood - 
washed throng singing redemption songs. 
About all we know of heaven has been 
revealed through trances. Peter had a 
trance immediately before God called him 
to go and preach to Cornelius. Stephen 
lost his life for telling what he saw in a 
trance. 

The greatest opposition Jesus and His 
Apostles had, came from the doctors of the 
law. They falsely accused them, and like 
blood-hounds hunted them down to death. 
Stephen's face shone in the midst of these 
doctors like the face of an angel. So we 
may shine, in some degree, as did Jesus on 
the mount of transfiguration, or as Moses, 



TRANCES. 131 

while talking to the Israelites after his forty 
days' walk with God in the holy mountain. 
O, thou eternal God, put the shine on us 
just now, for Jesus' sake! Hallelujah! 

You must be in a trance to see a vision. 
The natural eyes can not see God; but in a 
trance you see through your soul's eyes, and 
may see Him, for your eyes are then His 
eyes, and not your own. 

Isaiah was in a trance. He was called of 
God, but not prepared, so God showed him 
in a vision, his heart, and how to get it 
cleansed from all sin. He got down and let 
God sanctify him. O, let us get down at 
the feet of Jesus and be cleansed from all sin. 
The live coal represented the anointing and 
cleansing ®f the Holy Ghost. Isaiah was 
then ready to go; he had no excuse. Hear 
him exclaim: "Here am I; send me!" 

He who has been called of God to preach 
the Gospel, and has ceased to do so, is to be 
pitied. When one is called, it is for life. 
Daniel was often in trances. His profes- 
sional friends ran away from him, but the 
Lord called him His greatly beloved and 
told him what to do. 

One of the old saints lay in a trance for 
three days. Ezekiel, in a vision, saw the 



132 LOVE ON FIRE. 

church as a valley of dry bones. At one time 
he was carried away in a vision by God, by 
the hair of his head, and let down at Jerusa- 
lem. God may have to thus carry some of 
us about in these days in order to convince 
us that He is God. 

In olden times the people were not afraid 
to hold up holy hands and with a loud voice 
say, "Amen, amen, amen," and bow their 
faces to the ground. God help the people 
to get the starch out of their worship so 
they can shout with a great shout, "Glory to 
God! I am saved!" In olden times Chris- 
tians used to praise the Lord for themselves, 
but now many church members want to 
hire some one else to do it for them. 

Let us encircle the walls of Jericho the 
seventh time, and with a shout see the walls 
tumble to the ground; or, as in the days of 
Gideon, break the pitchers and see God 
conquer the enemy without bloodshed. O, 
the faith required to conquer the world for 
Jesus! 

In that most wonderful meeting just held 
by the Trance Evangelist, Mrs. M. B. 
Woodworth, in Indianapolis, about one 
thousand persons were saved, several hun- 
dred healed of all kinds of diseases, and 



TRANCES. 133 

from one to ten in a trance at almost every 
meeting, one of whom remained in that 
state seventeen hours. Some of them 
when in a trance had visions of the indes- 
cribable horrors of hell, with Satan riding 
on a black horse of death, with spear in 
hand to strike down all who opposed him. 
Others saw heaven, the beautiful gates, the 
gold-paved streets, and some of their 
friends. Others saw the Savior with His 
pierced side and the prints of the nails in 
His hands and feet. 

The Trance Evangelist says: "When 
called to preach my voice was very weak. 
The Lord gives me a voice as I need it. At 
first I could not carry a tune, but now at 
times I can be heard a mile, My voice at 
times seems to come from my lips. It is a 
special gift from God. 

"Since my anointing, which was brought 
about through the teaching of some 
Friends, the trances came on. The anoint- 
ing was like a cloud of glory. At times it 
seems as though I could fly. The anoint- 
ing abideth. It is power, and controlled 
me even before I had what the world calls 
trances. 

u Oh, it is wonderful how God works! 



134 LOVE ON FIRE. 

We simply put ourselves in His hands and 
He uses us. What He gives we joyfully 
use to save the people. We never yet had 
a house large enough to hold the people. 
When we have trances people are shown 
us hanging over the pit of hell, and such 
need to repent speedily or they are lost." 

The author first attended Sister Wood- 
worth's meetings in June, 1885, at Koko- 
mo, Ind., and saw the power of God won- 
derfully manifested in the conversion of 
sinners, in the anointing of believers and 
in trances. 

The house would seat about four thous- 
and, and was filled nearly all the time, and 
at times crowds were unable to gain admit- 
tance. In her short stay of three weeks, 
there were about 500 converted, 100 baptized 
and twenty-five in trances. 

In the spring of 1885 it pleased the Lord 
to have some of his children start a faith - 
meeting in Chicago, 111., where a great many 
were healed of all manner of diseases. When 
children of the same family are all born 
again, they may draw living water from the 
same fountain, and be healed of all manner 
of diseases as when Jesus of Nazareth was 
on earth. 



TRANCES. I35 

The most wonderful demonstration of 
power seen during the meetings was near 
midnight on the 2d of July, 1885, when 
nearly forty persons lay where they had 
fallen when healed, waiting for strength to 
arise and shine for Jesus. It took till day- 
light to clear the room of those healed, so 
powerful did the Holy Ghost fall upon the 
people. But glory to God, they all w r ent 
away healed. Could you see the many 
crutches left at these meetings you would 
say: "These signs shall follow them that 
believe." Mark 16: 17. Praise the Lord! 

While at Chicago the author saw in those 
gospel faith-meetings in two nights over 
fifty people fall entranced, (if you prefer 
the term), under the raining bullets of the 
Holy Ghost, and scores converted and healed 
of all manner of diseases. 

It was here we first saw the people fall 
in great numbers, in answer to our prayer 
and laying on of hands in faith meetings. 
Indeed, several times we came very near 
going down under the mighty power of the 
Lord. 

During the summer of 1886 we preached 
twenty-seven times in Louisville, Ky. From 
one to twenty-five fell at each meeting, 



I36 LOVE ON FIRE. 

under the power of the Holy Ghost. Some 
of them remained in an unconscious state 
for hours. Seek God's power, if you would 
see His glory. 





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